#274 - A Theory of Everyone: A Dialogue with Michael Muthukrishna

In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Michael Muthukrishna about energy, cooperation, and global themes. They discuss the broad scope of the book, importance of theory, energy being essential for cooperation, corruption and cooperation, laws of life, cooperation fueling human growth, and some of the negative aspects of cooperation. They also talk about intelligence, immigration, wealth inequality, meritocracy, and many other topics.

Michael Muthukrishna is Associate Professor of economic psychology in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has his PhD in psychology from the University of British Columbia and his main interests are in cooperation, cross-cultural differences, and corruption. He is the author of the latest book, A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How we got here, and Where we are going.

Website: https://www.michael.muthukrishna.com/

Twitter: @mmuthukrishna

Book Website: https://www.atheoryofeveryone.com/

Substack: Michael Muthukrishna

2019 paper on theory: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0522-1

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