Robin Hanson

American · b. 1959

Robin Hanson is an American economist and social scientist at George Mason University, known for applying economics and evolutionary psychology to human behaviour. His work on signaling — the idea that much of human activity is better explained by the desire to signal hidden qualities than by stated motives — is collected in The Elephant in the Brain (2018), co-authored with Kevin Simler. He blogs at Overcoming Bias and has written extensively on prediction markets, medicine, and the far future, including a book-length sketch of an emulation-economy scenario in The Age of Em (2016).

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