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European Conceptions of the “New Man,” 1880–1930
Stefanos Geroulanos' project focused on European intellectual and cultural history, a broad study of the trope of a “New Man”—the fantasy of a regener
All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
"All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929–1989" presents a series of case studies in the methods by which social (ec
Edging into the Wild
The analogy between artificial selection and natural selection forms a powerful rhetorical component of Darwin's argument in On the Origin of Species.
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
A Cultural History of Breathing
Familiar breathing—right under our noses—has at times followed and at times constituted the ever-changing boundary between what is considered “natural
Controversies in Crisis in Psychology (1897–1933)
Scientists spend most of their time doing research. But sometimes they stop and reflect on their discipline. In talks, textbooks or general introducti
Funding Institutions, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Workshop | Jun 21-Jun 22, 2018 | 09:00 to 18:00
Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy
MoreWorkshop | Jun 21-Jun 22, 2018 | 09:00 to 18:00
Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy
MoreCultural Evolution and the Free Market: Hayek’s Theory of Group Selection
Nobel laureate Friedrich August von Hayek was undoubtedly one of the most consequential thinkers in the twentieth century. He influenced leading econo
Publications
Beck, N., & Witt, U. (n.d.). Austrian Economics and the Evolutionary Paradigm. In P. Boettke & C. Coyne (Eds.), The Oxford Han, Beck, N. (2015). The Garden of Orderly Polity: F.A. Hayek and T.H. Huxley's Views on Social Evolution. Journal of Bioeconomics. [forthcoming in April], Full Book Statement, PDF, Beck, N. (n.d.). The Spontaneous Market Order and Evolution. In P. Harrison, & I. Hesketh (Eds.), Evolution and Historical Explanation: Contingenc, Beck, N. (2013). Social Darwinism. In Ruse, M. (Ed.), The Cambridge encyclopedia of Darwin and evolutionary thought (pp. 195-201). Cambridge: Cambridg