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Why don’t people like markets?
Pascal Boyer18 June 20129
People do not love markets – there is a lot of evidence for that. Is it relevant that, well, to put it bluntly, people do not seem to understand much about market economics? That is a common enough message from professional economists. It is put into sharper focus by Bryan Caplan in his book The ...

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Robin Dunbar vs. Pop Dunbar
Olivier Morin6 June 20126
This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 While reading the stimulating critique of Robin Dunbar's social brain hypothesis recently published by Jan de Ruiter and his colleagues, my first reaction was: "Straw man!". On second thoughts, it wasn't fair. ...

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Are we sure we can groom beyond Dunbar’s number?
Guillaume Dezecache4 June 201213
This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 When I heard about Kanai et al.'s paper [1] announcing a correlation between grey matter density in several brain areas and online social network size, I immediately updated my Facebook status, and touted the ...

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A debate on Robin Dunbar’s social brain hypothesis
Olivier Morin4 June 20122
This post is part of a Webinar debating Dunbar's Number. Part 1 — Part 2 — Part 3 Some months ago, an article by Jan de Ruiter, Gavin Weston and Stephen Lyon appeared in American Anthropologist. The paper's target is Robin Dunbar's Social brain hypothesis. The hypothesis comes in many ...

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Dual process theories of language and thinking
The ICCI Team3 June 20120
A special Issue of Mind and Society (vol 11 (1) June 2012) on “Dual process theories of language and thinking” "There has been increasing interest in recent years in dual process theories of human thought. This special issue of Mind and Society reflects this interest, some criticisms of these ...

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