May 31, 2020
Increasingly, I am gaining more insight to our economic and political problems from science books than I do from books on economics or political theory. I was started on this journey by Daniel Kahneman's book, Thinking, Fast and Slow that led to additional books on behavioral economics. I followed up by reading Jonathan Haidt's book, The Righteous Mind, that explores the psychological foundations of our moral precepts. Most recently, I read Richard Wrangham's book, The Goodness Paradox, where he explains how evolutionary forces have shaped our concepts of virtue and violence. In this episode I try to begin to bring these varied ideas and theories together to make sense of current events.