“The forces that shape our thinking, our economies, and our societies have become invisible to us,” London School of Economics Professor Michael Muthukrishna laments in another of the works appearing on the Starling Bookshelf this year, A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going. “If we cannot perceive the forces that shape us, we are impotent to shape these forces.”
To make these invisible forces operable, “we need a kind of corrective lens,” Muthukrishna offers here in an interview from The Academy. One “that allows us to go back to first principles, understand how our societies and companies have evolved, and how human psychology, behavior, and culture work.” [See also The Academy article An Interview with Michael Muthukrishna]
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