Join Dr. Anthony Biglan during this networking hour to discuss the issues addressed in his book Rebooting Capitalism: How We Can Forge a Society That Works for Everyone.
In 2014, David Sloan Wilson, Steve Hayes, Dennis Embry, and Anthony Biglan published a paper calling for the further development of an evolutionary science of intentional cultural change. Since then, each has worked to advance that science. Dr. Biglan has written a book on how we can accelerate the evolution of a political and economic system that works for everyone.
Over the past fifty years, the United States and many other countries have become dominated by free market ideology that encourages us to believe that if we pursue our own economic gain it will--like an invisible hand--benefit those around us. In the US, the results have included the diminution of prosocial values, the hollowing out of the middle class, higher levels of poverty, economic inequality, and greater divisiveness.
Dr. Biglan’s book provides an evolutionary analysis of capitalism over the past two hundred years, focusing particularly on the past 70 years. It then provides readers with the tools they need to participate in a worldwide movement to reform every sector of society.
Dr. Biglan shows how the major sectors of society have been corrupted by the belief that selfish pursuit is good for everyone. In each of these sectors, the critical first step is to promote prosocial values. Doing so will establish the selection criteria for the practices in that sector. For example, the healthcare system will evolve better practices if it assesses all of its policies and practices in terms of the degree to which they increase population health and wellbeing. |