Highly speculative, but I found this of interest: This article explores the hypothesis that modern East Asian populations inherited and maintained extensive psychosocial adaptations to arctic environments from ancestral Ancient Northern East Asian populations, which inhabited arctic and subarctic Northeast Eurasia around the Last Glacial Maximum period of the Late Pleistocene, prior to back migrating southwards into East Asia in […]
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology
Arctic Instincts? The Late Pleistocene Arctic Origins of East Asian Psychology
17 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, behavioural economics, economic history Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Dawkins and Pinker discuss evolution
14 Mar 2025 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: Age of Enlightenment, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, free speech, political correctness, regressive left
Here’s Richard Dawkins ostensibly discussing his new book (The Genetic Book of the Dead) with Steve Pinker, but of course you can’t confine a discussion between these two to a single book. Even from the beginning it ranges widely, in which Pinker discusses not only the epiphany that The Selfish Gene gave him, but levels […]
Dawkins and Pinker discuss evolution
What Evolution Reveals About Human Behavior
11 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of media and culture, health economics, population economics Tags: cognitive psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Alice Evans on the ideological gender divide
13 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
I suggest, Men and women tend to think alike in societies where there is Close-knit interdependence, religosity and authoritarianism, or Shared cultural production and mixed gendered offline socialising. Gendered ideological polarisation appears encouraged by: Feminised public culture Economic resentment Social media filter bubbles Cultural entrepreneurs. Here is the full piece, currently the best piece on […]
Alice Evans on the ideological gender divide
Quotation of the Day…
01 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, Austrian economics, behavioural economics, economic history, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, evolutionary psychology, The Great Enrichment
Tweet… is from my emeritus Nobel-laureate colleague Vernon Smith‘s splendid speech “Human Betterment Through Globalization,” delivered in September 2005 at the Irvington-on-Hudson then-headquarters of the Foundation for Economic Education: The challenge is that we all function simultaneously in two overlapping worlds of exchange. First, we live in a world of personal, social exchange based on…
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The evolutionary roots of folk economic beliefs?
14 Jan 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, economic history, economics of information, economics of media and culture, history of economic thought Tags: evolutionary psychology
‘Folk economic beliefs’ are the widespread beliefs about economic and policy issues, which are held by members of the public untrained in economics. This includes beliefs about trade, unemployment, the operation of markets, the effects of monetary policy, and so on. Many of these beliefs are incorrect, at least compared with the views and models…
The evolutionary roots of folk economic beliefs?
Confirmation bias
04 Dec 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: anthropology, evolutionary psychology
Dating Preferences Drive Human Evolution
29 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: dating markets, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, marriage and divorce
Jordan B Peterson on Femsplainers
21 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, gender wage gap
Evolution, Sex & Desire | David Buss | The JBP Podcast
02 Aug 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, law and economics Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Bret explains lineage selection and its differences with kin and group selection
15 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of education Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Robert Trivers on parental investment
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
The Neanderthals That Taught Us About Humanity
03 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
The Science of Political Judgment and Empathy | Paul Bloom | Big Think
06 Oct 2021 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: evolutionary psychology, expressive voting, free speech, moral psychology, political psychology, regressive left
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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