Have humans always been egalitarian? The evolutionary evidence suggests not.

Here’s the manuscript for a new piece in The Mint Magazine about the language of economics.

Let’s move all textbooks to the Creative Commons.

Economics from the Top Down is now officially in the Creative Commons.

I take a look at kinetic exchange models of income, and what we can learn from their mistakes.

I review Carey King’s new book ‘The Economic Superorganism’.

I look at the degrowth that might be achieved by eliminating inequality.

The talk version of my recent paper on degrowth.

This is the second in a series of two essays written for and supported by the Seoul Platform for Initiating Discourses on an Equitable and Resilient Society. These essays investigate the role that hierarchy plays in driving inequality and unsustainability. Summary Humanity’s most pressing need is to learn how to live within our planet’s boundaries — something that likely means doing without economic growth.

A talk given to the SEEFAR center about the problems with human capital theory.