This View of Life
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Humans have evolved to favor their in-groups, but who is considered part of the in-group can change across cultures, contexts, and the life course.

Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by creating a database of common-pool resource groups from a very diffuse literature. Can we do the same for business development?

Only by understanding the psychology of sacred values can we predict the willingness to sacrifice for those values.

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a simple reminder that the success of Homo sapiens has been essentially a cooperative enterprise.

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them at odds with the planetary boundaries of the Earth?

Many social and personal problems are adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word, but what if we could manage the process of personal evolution?

Are adolescent behaviors innately pathological or are they a result of the environment? Prominent scholars discuss both sides in this groundbreaking series.

Maintaining optimism in the face of what is an overwhelming climate crisis is absolutely necessary, even vital.

Entrepreneurs are not disconnected individuals, they are cooperating in a connected ecosystem.

Policies and abusive practices against local people in Africa mirror the colonial experiences of their forebears.