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“Civil society comes of age in economics: Tracking a century of research.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Economics Letters<\/em> 246 (2025). [with Wendy Carlin and Sahana Subramanyam]<\/p>\n “The refinement paradox: Complex products of collective improvement favor conformist outcomes, blind copying, and hyper-credulity.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0PLOS Computational Biology\u00a0<\/em>(2025). [with Elena Miu, Luke Rendell, et al.]\u00a0<\/p>\n “The origins of enduring economic inequality.”<\/a><\/strong> Journal of Economic Literature<\/i> 62(4) (2024): 1475-1537. [with Mattia Fochesato]<\/p>\n \u00a0“Social Conflict and the Evolution of Unequal Conventions.”<\/a><\/strong> Journal of the European Economic Association\u00a0<\/i>22(5) (2024): 2261-2293. [with Sung Ha Hwang and Suresh Naidu]<\/p>\n “Fredrich Hayek’s economy of knowledge.” <\/a><\/strong>Foundational Papers in Complexity Science<\/span>, Santa Fe Institute Press<\/span><\/em>\u00a0(2024).<\/span><\/p>\n “Herbert Gintis and the societal origins of preferences.”<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>Review of Radical Political Economics\u00a0<\/span><\/i>56(1)<\/span> (2024): 146-151.<\/span><\/p>\n “Does Studying Economics Make You Selfish?”<\/a> <\/strong>Southern Economic Journal\u00a0<\/span><\/i>90(3)<\/span> (2024): 792-814<\/span>. [with Daniele, Girardi, Sai Madhurika Mamunuru and Simon Halliday]<\/span><\/p>\n “Axioms and intuitions about societal inequality: What does the Gini coefficient measure?”<\/a><\/strong>Journal of Income Distribution <\/span><\/i>32(3-4)<\/span>\u00a0(2024). [with Wendy Carlin]<\/span><\/p>\n “Can Marshall plus Malthus explain the evolution of ancient societies? A review of\u00a0 Economic Prehistory<\/i> by Dow and Reed.”<\/strong><\/a> Journal of Economic Literature <\/span><\/i>62(3)<\/span> (2024): 1213-29<\/span>. [with Amy Bogaard]<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n “The coherence and relevance of core econ’s new benchmark model.”<\/a><\/strong> Advances in Economics Education<\/i> 2(2) (2023): 127-44. [with Wendy Carlin]<\/p>\n “Review of\u00a0 Graeber & Wengrow, The dawn of everything: A new history of humanity.”<\/a> <\/strong>Journal of Economic Literature<\/span><\/i> 61(3) (2023): 1190-98.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Moral Economics.”<\/a> <\/strong>Fiscal Studies<\/span><\/i> 44(2) (2023): 151-60.<\/span><\/p>\n “A biological employment model of reproductive inequality.” <\/a><\/strong>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>Biology<\/span><\/i>)<\/span> <\/i>378(1883) (2023). [with Peter Hammerstein] \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “Reproductive inequality in humans and other mammals”<\/a><\/strong>. <\/span>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/span><\/i>\u00a0120(22) (2023). [with Cody T. Ross, Paul Hooper, Jennifer Smith]<\/span><\/p>\n “Behavioral mechanism design. A comment on Chater and Loewenstein, The i-frame and the s-frame.”<\/a> <\/strong>Behavior and Brain Sciences<\/span>\u00a0<\/em>46 (2023).<\/span><\/p>\n “Foundations of an Expanded Community of Fate.” <\/a><\/strong>Daedalus,<\/span><\/i> 152 <\/span>Creating a New Moral Political Economy <\/span><\/i>(1). (2023) [with Wendy Carlin<\/span>]<\/b><\/p>\n “Opposition to voluntary and mandated COVID-19 vaccination as a dynamic process: Evidence and policy implications of changing beliefs.”<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022).<\/span><\/i> [with<\/span> Katrin Schmelz]<\/span><\/p>\n “Shrinking capitalism: Components of a new paradigm for political economy.”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a> <\/span>Oxford Review of Economic Policy<\/span><\/i>. (2021). [with Wendy Carlin]<\/span><\/p>\n “Overcoming COVID-19 Vaccination Resistance When Alternative Policies Affect the Dynamics of Conformism, Social Norms and Crowding-Out.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/em> 118(25) (2021). [with Katrin Schmelz]<\/p>\n Popular version of the above is \u00a0“How policies affect beliefs and preferences: The example of covid-19 willingness.”\u00a0<\/a> <\/span>VOX EU <\/span><\/i>(<\/span>1 July 2021) [with Katrin Schmelz]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n “Inequality as experienced difference:\u00a0 A reformulation of the Gini coefficient.”<\/a><\/strong> <\/span>Economics Letters<\/span><\/i> 186 (2020): 1-3. [with Wendy Carlin]<\/span><\/p>\n “The coming battle for the Covid-19 narrative.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 <\/span>VOX EU<\/span><\/i>\u00a0(10 April 2020) [with Wendy Carlin]<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “How institutions and cultures change: An evolutionary perspective.”<\/strong> <\/a>In <\/span>The Handbook of Historical Economics<\/span><\/i>, edited by Alberto Bisin and Giovanni Federico, 389-431. Elsevier. (2020). [with Jung-Kyoo Choi, Sung Ha Hwang, and Suresh Naidu]<\/span><\/p>\n “Shrinking capitalism.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings <\/em>110(5) (2020): 1-5. [with Wendy Carlin]<\/p>\n “Civic culture, state capacities and war: a comment.”<\/strong><\/a> Econometrica<\/em> 88(4) (2020): 337-1343.<\/p>\n “What Students Learn in Economics 101: Time for a Change.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Journal of Economic Literature<\/i> 58(1) (2020): 176-214. [with Wendy Carlin]<\/p>\n “The Neolithic Agricultural Revolution and the Origin of Private Property.<\/a>”\u00a0<\/strong>Journal of Political Economy <\/em>127(5) (2020): 1993-2568<\/span>. [with Jung-Kyoo Choi]<\/p>\n “Differences between sons and daughters in the intergenerational transmission of wealth.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Biology) <\/em>374 (2019). [with Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Mary C. Towner, Ryan Baldini, Bret A. Beheim,\u00a0Heidi Colleran, Michael Gurven, Karen L. Kramer, Siobhan M. Mattison, David A. Nolin, Brooke A. Scelza, Rebecca Sear, Mary K. Shenk, Eckart Voland and John Ziker]<\/p>\n “The farming-inequality nexus: new insights from ancient Western Eurasia.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Antiquity <\/i>93(371) (2019): 1129-1143<\/span>. [with Mattia Fochesato and Amy Bogaard]<\/span><\/p>\n “Comparing ancient inequalities: the challenges of comparability, bias and precision.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Antiquity <\/i>93(370) (2019): 853-869<\/span>. [with Mattia Fochesato and Amy Bogaard]<\/span><\/p>\n “Institution shocks and economic outcomes: Allende’s election, Pinochet’s coup and the Santiago stock market.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Journal of Development Economics<\/em> 134 (2018): 16-27. [with Daniele Girardi]<\/p>\n Marx and Modern Economics<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Vox CEPR Policy Portal, <\/em>21\u00a0April 2018<\/p>\n “Greater Wealth Inequality, Less Polygyny: Rethinking the polygyny threshold model.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Journal of the Royal Society Interface <\/i>15(144) (2018) [with Cody T. Ross, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Seung-Yun Oh, Bret Beheim, John Bunce, Mark Caudell, Gregory Clark, Heidi Colleran, Carmen Cortez, Patricia Draper, Russell D. Greaves, Michael Gurven, Thomas Headland, Janet Headland, Kim Hill , Barry Hewlett, Hillard S. Kaplan, Jeremy Koster, Karen Kramer, Frank Marlowe, Richard McElreath, David Nolin, Marsha Quinlan, Robert Quinlan, Caissa Revilla-Minaya, Brooke Scelza, Ryan Schacht, Mary Shenk, Ray Uehara, Eckart Voland, Kai Willf\u00fchr, Bruce Winterhalder and John Ziker]<\/span><\/p>\n “Farming, Inequality and Urbanization: A Comparative Analysis of Late Prehistoric Northern Mesopotamia and South-West Germany.<\/strong>“<\/a> In Quantifying Ancient Inequality: The Archaeology of Wealth Differences. <\/i>Amerind Foundation, edited by T. A. Kohler and M. E. Smith. (2017)[with Bogaard, Amy; Amy Styring; Jade Whitlam; Mattia\u00a0 Fochesato and Samuel\u00a0 Bowles]<\/span><\/p>\n “Greater Post-Neolithic Wealth Disparities in Eurasia Than in North America and Mesoamerica.”<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Nature<\/i>, 551(7680) (2017): 619-22. [with Timothy A. Kohler, Michael E. Smith, Amy Bogaard, Gary M. Feinman, Christian E. Peterson, Alleen Betzenhauser, Matthew Pailes, Elizabeth C. Stone, Anna Marie Prentiss, Timothy J. Dennehy, Laura J. Ellyson, Linda M. Nicholas, Ronald K. Faulseit, Amy Styring, Jade Whitlam, Mattia Fochesato, Thomas A. Foor]<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPersistence and Change in Culture and Institutions under Autarchy, Trade, and Factor Mobility.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0American Economic Journal: Microeconomics\u00a0<\/em>9(4) (2017): 245-276. [with Marianna Belloc]<\/p>\n \u201cThe Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings\u00a0<\/em>107(5) (2017): 1-7. [with Suresh Naidu and Sung-Ha Hwang]<\/p>\n \u201cRetrospectives: Friedrich Hayek and the Market Algorithm.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Journal of Economic Perspectives\u00a0<\/em>31(3) (2017): 215-230. [with Alan Kirman and Rajiv Sethi]<\/p>\n \u201cNordic Exceptionalism? Social Democratic Egalitarianism in World-Historic Perspective.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Journal of Public Economics <\/em>127 (2015): 30-44. [with Mattia Fochesato]<\/p>\n \u201cOptimal Incentives with State-Dependent Preferences.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Journal of Public Economic Theory\u00a0<\/em>16(5) (2014): 681-705. [with Sung-Ha Hwang]<\/p>\n \u201cNicolo Machiavelli and the Origins of Mechanism Design.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Journal of Economic Issues <\/em>48(2) (2014): 267-276<\/span>.<\/p>\n Comment on Fry and Soderberg\u00a0\u201cLethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War.\u201d<\/strong><\/a>\u00a019 July 2013.<\/p>\n Review of James Heckman,\u00a0Giving Kids a Fair Chance<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Science<\/em>\u00a0Vol. 340, May 31, 2013.<\/p>\n “The Persistence of Inferior Cultural-Institutional Conventions.”<\/strong><\/a> American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings<\/em>\u00a0103(3) (2013): 1-7. [with Marianna Belloc].<\/p>\n “Coevolution of Farming and Private Property During the Early Holocene.”<\/strong><\/a> \n
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