I’ve been asked to create panels for the upcoming International Conference on Thermodynamics 2.0. The conference aims to bring natural and social sciences closer. It will take place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA from June 22-24, 2020. I’m calling the panel(s) Energy, Institutions and Society . I’m looking for research that connects energy to the structure of human society.

Here are ten tips for making your research open to fellow scientists.

Wages correlate with firms’ sales per worker. Does this mean that productivity explains wages? The answer is no.

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.