Economics is in our nature. But not the narrowly self-interested kind. We evolved to survive collaboratively. Models of us that exclude our interdependence are fatally flawed. "Darwin's wedge" can ...

A new science called evolutionary economics offers fresh insights into how the business landscape isn’t controlled from the top. The answer may be found in a new science called evolutionary economics.

It took an evolutionary leap in the human species to help trigger the change from centuries of economic stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth, according to the first theory that ...

Economics, history and the evolution of life are governed by the same underlying principles, implying predictable trends in all three areas, according to a new book by Geerat Vermeij, distinguished ...

In a series of books written over the past decade, Paul Ormerod has criticised orthodox economics for being too mechanistic and divorced from reality and has argued the case for a new approach. As one ...

Early in my teaching career I managed to inadvertently get most of the students in my microeconomics class mad at me, and for once, it had nothing to do with anything I said in class. The problem was ...

NOT FOR the first time this century, the global economy is rebounding from crisis. The new normal will differ from the old one. The pandemic shifted resources around, destroyed firms, and subtly ...

Money is a powerful force in human life and affairs. Its very power gives pause to those who look to evolution for full explanations of human behavior, because money has not existed long enough to ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Economics is in our nature. But not the ...

IN my article last week, I shared ideas on complexity economics and suggested that our economy has become a complex, adaptive and dynamic system, where it is inherently difficult to prescribe or ...