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Complexity Liberalism

I take a complexity approach to understanding and interpreting economics and politics. I consider our civil society to be made up of subsets of self-organizing network processes that interact to create our civil society. This is a new liberalism (neither left nor right).

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Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 30, 2018

Neurodiversity and Group Selection

Humans are hypersocial, but hypersociality doesn’t necessarily mean acceptance of diversity. And yet, humans do manage to be both hypersocial and accepting of difference. Recent research suggests that the acceptance of diversity occurred about 100,000 years ago, and…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Mar 8, 2017

The Illusion of Agent Control

Perhaps one of the most problematic cognitive biases we have is the tendency to attribute agency when one doesn’t understand the cause of something and/or where none is needed. This cognitive bias is related to the Illusion of Control, where you overestimate your degree of…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Dec 26, 2016

The Darwinian Economy Isn’t Red in Tooth and Claw

It is not uncommon to hear people object to the very idea that the market economy can and ought to be understood in Darwinian terms. The reason for this is that when people think of the economy in Darwinian terms, they are thinking of nature…

Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Nov 16, 2015

What Is Evonomics?

Evonomics is a new online magazine that has made a big splash almost immediately. It is a product of Robert Kadar’s Evolution Institute, to which David Sloan Wilson is a contributor and advisor, and the stated intention is to bring about a paradigm shift in economics through the introduction of…

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Troy Camplin in Complexity Liberalism

Jan 21, 2020

The Origins of Leadership

A quarter of all species of fish live in social groups called shoals; half spend at least part of their lives in…