Index

1 percenters, 50
99 percenters, 42
adaptive, 17, 28, 31–33, 35, 64, 84, 95, 96
Alien and Sedition Acts, 102
Allison, Julia, 57
Andersen, Hans Christian, 13
antidiscrimination laws, 59, 61
Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 19
Arendt, Hannah, 77
assumptive close, 44
Axelrod, Robert, 32, 84

Bacon, Francis, 11
Baranger, Michel, 89
Barrett, H. Clark, 31
Bar-yam, Yaneer, 92
Biddle, Jeff E., 51
bigotry, 57
bonding, 57, 87
Bradford, William, 39, 69, 70, 72
Browne, Harry, 111
Bruno, Giordano, 11
Burke, Edmund, 110
butterfly effect, 90, 91

Cable, Daniel M., 51
CC&Rs, 106
cerebral cortex, 56
Chapman University, 19, 96
cheater detection, 31, 32
cheaters, 32, 33, 64, 69
Chetty, Raj, 47
Chinese Exclusion Act, 58
Chuang-tzu, 84
Clichés of Socialism, 10
common sense, 16, 18, 28, 37,  56, 59, 61, 65, 68, 69, 74, 78, 108
Common Sense (Paine), 102
complexity theory, 18, 24, 84, 85, 95
consequences, 21, 25, 27, 39, 45, 73, 78, 91
Constitution, 20, 27, 58, 101–03, 106
cooperation, 13, 17, 28, 30–32, 35, 64, 66, 69, 83
cooperative. See cooperation
Cosmides, Leda, 31, 32, 94, 95
Cremonini, Cesare, 12
culprit/victim scenario, 36

Darwin, Charles, 84
Dawkins, Richard, 29, 85, 98
determinism, 89
discrimination, 17, 55, 56, 58, 59
diversity, 43, 87, 88
division of labor, 58
DNA, 92

Eichmann, Adolf, 76–78
entitlement programs, 21, 33, 38
equality, 17, 41, 42, 49, 107
Ethnic America. See Sowell, Thomas
evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS), 32
evolutionary, 13, 21, 24, 29–32, 34, 62, 66, 67, 84
evolutionary psychology, 24, 30, 32, 34, 95

fairness, 17, 41–43, 52, 75
feedback, 9, 14, 16, 25, 28, 39, 85, 86, 94, 105
Foundation for Economic Education, 10
Free Enterprise Institute, 11
free riders, 32, 69, 73

Galambos, Andrew, 11
Galileo, 11, 12
Gallup poll, 19, 20
game theory, 24, 32, 35, 65, 84
gap, earning and wealth, 44, 45, 49, 50, 53
generosity, 35, 36
genes, 29–31, 37, 64, 67, 68, 93, 94, 99
genetics, 24
geocentric, 12
Glieck, James, 90
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 24, 101, 109
Golden Rule, 25, 26, 78, 84, 106
Goldman, Steven, 91, 98
Governing the Commons (Ostrom), 67
Haidt, Jonathan, 106–08
Haldane, John, 83
Hamermesh, Daniel, 51
Hamilton, William, 13, 29, 32
Harper, F.A., 101
Hayek, F.A., 36
Hendren, Nathaniel, 47
Hobbes, Thomas, 14, 96, 103
homophobia, 57

inequality, 41–45, 48, 51
IRS, 79

Janofsky, Michael, 21
Johnson, Kevin R., 58
Johnson, Lyndon, 20
Judge, Timothy A., 51
justice, 9, 22, 27, 51, 52, 75, 99, 103, 107
kinship, 33, 57
Kline, Patrick, 47
Krueger, Alan B., 45, 46, 48

Lee, Chul-In, 47
Leviathan (Hobbes), 103
liberty, 15–17, 22, 23, 28, 101, 102, 106
Locke, John, 28
Lorenz, Edward, 90, 91
Losing Ground (Murray), 21
Luntz, Frank, 105

Madison, James, 14
Mandelbrot, Benoit, 83
marriage, 56, 62, 97
Mencken, H. L., 101
Milgram, Stanley, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81
Miller, John H., 95, 96
moral compass, 16, 28, 107
Murray, Charles, 21

natural selection, 17, 25, 28, 32, 43, 66, 94
nature, 9–14, 16, 17, 23, 26, 28, 33–34, 36, 39, 46, 52, 63, 64, 67, 73, 78, 84, 86, 88, 89, 92–94, 96, 97, 103, 105–07
New Organon (Bacon), 11
Newton, Isaac, 89
Nixon, Richard, 8, 9, 21
nonlinear systems, 88–90

obedience, 15, 16, 27, 28, 76, 78–80
Orgel, Leslie, 99
ostracize, 33, 69
Ostrom, Elinor, 65–68
oxytocin, 34, 35

Page, Scott, 85, 87, 95, 96
Paine, Thomas, 102
Pennington, Mark, 68
Pew Research Center, 20
Piketty, Thomas, 48, 49
Pilgrims, 39, 69
Pinker, Steven, 96, 97
plunder, 15, 36, 103
political box, 13, 15, 17, 20, 21, 27, 38, 44, 51, 52, 97
political debates, 23
political democracy, 15, 18, 36, 52, 57, 73, 79, 105, 106, 108
political propaganda, 79
poverty, 21, 27, 110
predictability, 90
Prigogine, Ilya, 89
prisoner’s dilemma, 65

racism, 57
Rational Optimist, The (Ridley), 58
Rauch, Jonathan, 60
Rawls, John, 51–53, 75
reciprocity, 30, 33, 68
Reich, Robert, 45
reputation, 31, 69
Ridley, Matt, 58, 98
Righteous Mind. See Haidt
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek), 36, 37
Russell, Bertrand, 16, 110

Saez, Emmanuel, 47
Sapolsky, Robert, 56, 64, 80, 87
Science of Volition, 11
scientific method, 11, 88
scientific truths, 10
Scott Act, 58
self-interest, 13, 42, 64, 84, 87. See selfish
selfish, 13, 14, 17, 29–31, 33, 37, 65, 67, 70, 73
selfish gene, 29, 30
selfishness, 13, 28, 31, 37, 63, 64, 93. See selfish
self-organization, 98
self-synchronization, 94
Shell, Joe, 8, 9
Shiller, Robert, 48, 49
Skarbek, David, 96
slackers, 33, 69
slavery, 27, 41, 73, 103
Smith, Adam, 13, 33, 34, 84
social contract, 32
social contract algorithms, 32
social engineering, 21
Solon, Gary, 47
Sowell, Thomas, 38, 62
spontaneous order, 21, 85
Stastny, Charles, 96
state of nature, 96, 103
Strogatz, Steven, 90, 91, 94
subjugation, 15, 24
synergism, 57, 66
tariffs, 87, 102
taxes, 46–48, 58, 102
Ten Commandments, 25
Theory of Justice, A. See Rawls
Theory of Moral Sentiments. See Smith, Adam
theory of self-organizing systems, 84
Thoreau, Henry David, 83
Tit for Tat, 84, 87, 96
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 41
Tooby, John, 31, 32, 94, 95
tragedy of the commons, 18, 39, 63–65, 69
Trivers, Robert, 32
Tyrnauer, Gabrielle, 96

volitional, 13, 14, 24, 28, 37, 50, 61, 86, 97, 106, 108
War on Drugs, 21
War on Poverty, 20
Wealth of Nations. See Smith, Adam
welfare, 17, 21, 38, 39, 73, 94, 95
Wilde, Oscar, 109
Williams, George, 13, 29
Wilson, E. O., 30
Wolfram, Stephen, 92, 93

Zak, Paul, 34, 35