The Social Swan: where Kahneman, Taleb and Darwin meet Marx

By Florian Willet

"The Social Swan" is a must read for all the fans of the New-York-Times bestseller "The Black Swan".Dr. Florian Willet holds six university degrees across the fields of law, economics and psychology. He develops a UNIFIED THEORY of BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS that includes behavioral ecology, evolution and cognition. Next to Thomas Piketty's take on the accumulation of capital, he incorporates the work of Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman about the biasing of human neurocognition. In addition, a variety of political topics are being addressed.The book "The Social Swan" is a landmark in evolutionary behavioral economics literature.A whole New Paradigm of economic theory, based on concepts of:Francis GALTON (Bean Machine),Charles DARWIN (biological evolution),Ronald FISHER (Fisherian Runnaway),George AKERLOF (adverse selection),Geoffrey MILLER (proteanism),Robin DUNBAR (Dunbars Number),Walter MISCHEL (delayed gratification),Ivan PAVLOV (classical conditioning),Niccol? MACHIAVELLI (Salami Tactics),Karl MARX (capital accumulation),Thorstein VEBLEN (conspicuous consumption),Herbert GINTIS (indirect reciprocity),Davin Sloan WILSON (Multilevel Selection),Robert TRIVERS (self deception),Sara SOLNICK (social referencing),Richard EASTERLIN (Easterlin Paradox),Nassim TALEB (The Black Swan),Thomas SCHELLING (Focal points),Daniel KAHNEMAN (cognitive biases),Thomas PIKETTY (wealth inequality).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520329245
• ISBN13: 9781520329246
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"