I haven't written a blog in about a decade. This one isn't a diary of my life or a collection of random thoughts. It is meant to help me put into clear language the central research question I am working on. I am attempting to build up a bigger idea out of smaller ones since I'm not smart enough to hold it all in my head simultaneously.
I am interested in human cooperation, specifically ways human cooperate that other animals do not. A few disciplines of importance for this topic are evolutionary biology, economics, natural history, and anthropology among others. I'm not an expert in any of them and I have only read what I have read. No apologies there.
An early attempt at a one sentence explanation of my question: What cooperation technology will succeed money and how will it change what it means to be human?
The preliminary posts will be a discussion of the terms necessary for this topic and a review of human history from this viewpoint. I also plan to do some simple posts just outlining a key idea or economics concept that I need to understand how all these parts fit together. Eventually I plan to focus on the ways money is a useful cooperation technology compared to ones humans used in the past and also highlight some of its key flaws. Hopefully this will help push me along to having some predictions about how the ways we use money will continue to change and what kinds of complex coordination of human behavior will come next.
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