If you’re good at something that isn’t valued by other people, you won’t be rewarded. This is the tyranny of meritocracy.

I review evidence for the power ethos inside modern firms.

Has the digital revolution made wealth non-material?

I continue to explore how our evolved sociality explains resource distribution. I discuss the power ethos — the idea that individuals get resources in proportion to their social influence.

It’s time to put economics in line with the rest of science. We need a theory of resource distribution that accepts our evolved sociality.

The ideal of science is to respect the evidence — to take nobody’s word for it. But this cuts against our social instinct to pay deference to members of our tribe.

Here are 10 books that every economic heretic should read.

I show you my code for making pretty charts in ggplot.

In some countries, the top 1% share of income has increased while the Gini index has decreased. Here’s how it can happen.

The idea that income is proportional to productivity is a thought virus that needs to die.

The social sciences, I’ve come to believe, don’t have a coherent concept of causation. To talk about ‘causation’ we need to have a boundary on cause and effect. I reflect on what this means for studying causation.