The Economist Asks

The Economist Asks: Joseph Henrich

12.10.2020 - By The EconomistPlay

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How stable is the West? Professor Joseph Henrich, chair of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, says that even successful societies can implode. He tells Anne McElvoy that the economically dominant Western identity, evolving from the “psychologically peculiar” minds of the population, could look very different in the future. 

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