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Jon Erickson: "Illusions, Power and the Political Economy"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Evolutionary Economics - Utility Maximization

How does conventional economics treat evolutionary psychology and the things you were just talking about? They've taken this kind of narrow view of utility maximization and tried to wrap everything into it. So a book like mine or concepts from evolutionary economics or ecological economics mainstream says, yeah, yeah, we know that. But then they continue to kind of practice and preach it very, very narrow, narrow, narrow,. narrow version," he said.

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