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1 He has focused on narratives. Energy narratives Before discussing King s narrative framework, it s worth pausing for some reflection. Scientists who study the biophysical limits of the human economy run head-on into a cultural divide between the natural and social sciences. These two cultures (as C.P. Snow called them) do not speak the same language. I can testify to this divide. I have had many frustrating conversations with social scientists who are incredulous that the laws of thermodynamics apply to human societies. (They do.) And I have had equally frustrating conversations with natural scientists (particularly physicists) who insist that there must be a simple equation that describes human behavior. (There is not.) ....
March 17, 2021 As a recent grad during the 2008 economic downturn, Hadassah Mativetsky ’07, MS ’12, worked as a server at a banquet hall in downtown Binghamton. The Binghamton University Alumni Association held an event there during one of her shifts, and Mativetsky saw how the University honored distinguished graduates as well as young up-and-comers who were making a difference for their alma mater. The evening’s key messages and convivial atmosphere stoked her Binghamton pride which, it must be noted, was already pretty high. “I’d be standing on the sidelines waiting to refill people’s water and watching the speeches,” she said. “I had a realization that alumni can be really engaged and have an impact on the University.” ....
not. It’s not about supply-side economics, which is sometimes called ‘top-down’ economics. Instead, I use the phrase ‘economics from the top down’ to mean two things. First, it’s a philosophical approach to studying human society. It’s an alternative to the ‘bottom-up’ approach that’s most common in economics. In the bottom-up approach, you first postulate simple principles of human behavior. You then use these ‘microfoundations’ to explain the behavior of groups of people. I think this approach is misguided. It’s the equivalent of trying to explain individual behavior using postulates about how cells behave. It’s not that the bottom-up approach is impossible - clearly individuals interact to create group behavior (just as human cells interact to create individual behavior). The problem is that this bottom-up approach is far beyond our present abilities. We have no universal theory of human behavior (just as we have no universal theory of how ce ....
Your browser does not support HTML5 audio. Please update your browser to hear this media content. Imagine you’re on a beach and off in the distance you spot a drowning child. Would you risk your life to save them? History is filled with countless examples of people risking life and limb for complete strangers, but why? How can evolutionary science explain that kind of selfless altruism? Evolutionary biologists Jeff Schloss and David Sloan Wilson joined Steve Paulson to explore how group selection can explain altruism. This episode was produced in partnership with the Center for Humans and Nature, an organization that brings together scholars from a diversity of disciplines to think creatively about our relationships with nature and each other. What do you think evolution can tell us about love and morality? Share your thoughts at humansandnature.org. This episode was made possible through the support of the John Templeton Foundation. ....
The Rise Of Human Capital Theory If there was an award for the most pernicious scientific idea ever, what theory should get first prize? I would vote for eugenics, a theory that claims we can improve humanity through selective breeding. If there was a second prize, I d give it to human capital theory. I think of human capital theory as eugenics light . It purges the idea that abilities are innate (and that we should selectively breed the fit ). But human capital theory keeps the Nietzschean idea that humanity s success can be attributed mostly to gifted ubermensch. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. ....