David Hugh-Jones

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My book is out! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wyclifs-Dust-Western-cultures-printing/dp/B0B5PPXSQH/

I’m a social scientist in an economics department in Britain. Two of my interests are experimental economics and the social causes of genetic variation. I have a newsletter at https://wyclif.substack.com.

Five toy worlds to think about heritability

David Hugh-Jones28 Jun 2024 13:11 UTC

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Ordinary human life

David Hugh-Jones17 Dec 2022 16:46 UTC

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Self-Control Secrets of the Puritan Masters

David Hugh-Jones26 Sep 2022 9:04 UTC

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A market is a neural network

David Hugh-Jones15 Sep 2022 21:53 UTC

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Wyclif’s Dust: the missing chapter

David Hugh-Jones22 Jul 2022 18:27 UTC

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A review of Nate Hilger’s The Parent Trap

David Hugh-Jones15 Jul 2022 9:30 UTC

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On effective altruism, utilitarianism and localness

David Hugh-Jones3 Jun 2022 10:34 UTC

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An academic journal is just a Twitter feed

David Hugh-Jones27 May 2022 11:14 UTC

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The internet makes it easier to cooperate, that’s the problem

David Hugh-Jones19 Apr 2022 15:25 UTC

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Albert Hirschman on liberalism and nationalism

David Hugh-Jones23 Mar 2022 10:08 UTC

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The Dawn of Everything: a review

David Hugh-Jones21 Mar 2022 12:53 UTC

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No, human life was not a misery until the 1950s

David Hugh-Jones11 Feb 2022 10:39 UTC

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A little game theory on discursive conflict

David Hugh-Jones27 Jan 2022 21:19 UTC

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The end of Victorian culture, part II: people and history

David Hugh-Jones18 Dec 2021 18:55 UTC

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The end of Victorian culture, part I: structural forces

David Hugh-Jones9 Dec 2021 19:25 UTC

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The Emperor’s New Clothes: a story of motivated stupidity

David Hugh-Jones20 Nov 2021 13:24 UTC

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Is genetics “dark”?

David Hugh-Jones1 Nov 2021 18:23 UTC

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How’s it going with the Universal Cultural Takeover? Part II

David Hugh-Jones24 Sep 2021 9:37 UTC

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How’s it going with the Universal Cultural Takeover? Part I

David Hugh-Jones23 Sep 2021 19:07 UTC

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In-group loyalty is social cement

David Hugh-Jones6 Jul 2021 9:57 UTC

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