The Theory of Primate Sentiments: Part Three
Here is the last post on primate sentiments - and as I said at the end of the last post, it's really a postscript. It...
The Theory of Primate Sentiments: Part Two
The story so far. Robin Dunbar is arguing that language developed amongst apes as something that could replace grooming in facilitating larger social groups than...
The Theory of Primate Sentiments: Part One.
I've just finished reading a book entitled "Grooming, gossip and the evolution of language" (Amazon link - but no pages to view) by Robin Dunbar...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments: Happy 250th birthday
Herewith my column in today's SMH, replacing Ross Gittins as you eat your Weeties. Thanks as ever to James Farrell for reading an earlier draft...
Culture and language as public goods
Herewith a weekend half-hour read. Comments and corrections appreciated. A culture survives principally, I think, by the power of its institutions to bind and loose...
What economic reform thinking might have looked like – if we’d bothered to do it. Me and Martin Wolf
https://youtu.be/S_SWo3Cj8Yc I have posted this talk previously, but can now post the transcript, worked up from a YouTube transcript with thanks to Shruti Sekar for...
The social world as a nested ecology of public and private goods: Part Two
Part Two of my essay on the way of looking at the world I've worked out over the last few years and published on Evonomics can be found here....