Economics obscures or is oblivious to the politics embedded in theorization itself. In this book, @devikadutt.bsky.social, @cacrisalves.bsky.social, @surbhikesar.bsky.social & @ingridhk.bsky.social return political questions to the heart of economic theorizing.

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Dolphin researcher Laela Sayigh wins the first Coller-Dolittle Prize for Two-way Inter-species Communication. Fabulous work with Peter Tyak on the meaning and function of dolphin whistles. What are the larger implications of this kind of research? 👇

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

You might have heard that psychology has a WEIRD problem. Though it aims to understand human minds, many of its studies have historically been skewed towards WEIRD minds.

In this 🚨NEW PAPER🚨, @kristinandrews.bsky.social and I argue that comparative cognition also has a WEIRD problem. 👇🧵 1/17

If you care about language evolution, or are just looking for some heavy-ish weekend reading, Geurts & Moore (Eds.) Evolutionary Pragmatics is now available to order. The paper version won't be shipped until the end of August, but there's an electronic version on Oxford Academic today.

I guess I'm really writing a trade book for Norton on animal culture! Absolutely thrilled with this process and proud to be a part of the @wwnorton community--so many of my favorite thinkers have published with them.

"Liberalism is Neither Dead, Dying, in Need of Reformulation, Nor Well Understood" by Walter Weimer cosmosandtaxis.org/wp-content/u...

Just on an aside otherwise, I really like Beiser's book on historicism and was disappointed if not surprised to see it fail to attract greater attention among, well, historians! academic.oup.com/book/9329?lo... Also loved Beiser's little cameo appearance in Susan Neiman's "Slow Fire" (1992) ....

Frederick C. Beiser, Early German Positivism (OUP, 2024/25; #skystorians, #history): academic.oup.com/book/58818?l...

7. Frederick Beiser’s German Historicist Tradition — A solid survey of the historicists from the 18th c. on, with an especially useful focus on the tensions of Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment in Herder’s contemporaries, & on the neo-Kantian roots of 19th-c. historicism.

"No innovation would ever have been accomplished if its originator had been in need of an authorization by those from whose doctrines and methods he wanted to deviate. Hegel would not have ordained Schopenhauer or Feuerbach, nor ... Rau ...Marx or Carl Menger."

Ludwig von Mieses

"Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds, which follows from the advance of science." ~ Charles Darwin

Bruce Caldwell's talk on Friedrich Hayek's *The Road to Serfdom* www.youtube.com/live/rOFyGMT...