Sunday, May 31, 2015

Econ Journal Watch Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2015


Econ Journal Watch
Volume 12, Issue 2, May 2015

In this issue (.pdf):
Evolution, moral sentiments, and the welfare state: Many now maintain that multilevel selection created a sympathetic species with yearnings for social solidarity. Several evolutionary authors on the political left suggest that collectivist politics is an appropriate way to meet that yearning. Harrison Searles agrees on evolution and human nature, but faults them for neglecting Hayek’s charge of atavism: The modern polity and the ancestral band are worlds apart, rendering collectivist politics inappropriate and misguided. David Sloan Wilson, Robert Kadar, and Steve Roth respond, suggesting that new evolutionary paradigms promise to transcend old ideological categories.
More articles but this looks most interesting to me.

ht Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution

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