Mar 15, 2023
Increasingly, policymakers, investors, and advocates recognize
that the neoliberal theory of economic organization – laissez faire
– is a failed experiment. However, certain areas of law –
particularly antitrust law are still beholden to false econometric
notions about how markets operate, which influences legal
interpretation, case precedent, and ongoing debates about reviving
antitrust’s role in the political economy. Can Multilevel Cultural
Evolution provide a new paradigm for anti-trust law, along with the
rest of economics?
Denise Hearn is a writer, advisor, and project catalyzer who
works with investors, policymakers, and organizations who want to
use their power to support a living and equitable future.
Hearn serves as a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties
Project and co-lead of the Access to Markets initiative. Hearn also
serves as Board Chair of The Predistribution Initiative which aims
to improve investment structures and practices to address systemic
risks like inequality, biodiversity loss, and climate change.
Denise co-authored The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the
Death of Competition with Jonathan Tepper — named one of the
Financial Times’ Best Books of 2018. Her writing has been
featured in publications such as The Financial Times,
The Globe and Mail, Stanford Social Innovation
Review, Responsible Investor, and The Washington
Post. Hearn currently authors the Embodied Economics
newsletter.
David Sloan Wilson is one of the foremost evolutionary
thinkers and gifted communicators about evolution to the general
public. He is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and
Anthropology Emeritus at Binghamton University and President of the
nonprofit organization Prosocial World, whose mission is "To
consciously evolve a world that works for all." His most
recent books are This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian
Revolution, Prosocial: Using Evolutionary Science to Build
Productive, Equitable, and Collaborative Groups (with Paul
Atkins and Steven C. Hayes), and his first novel, Atlas Hugged:
The Autobiography of John Galt III.