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Turnbull vs evolution

Conservative antipathy to Malcolm Turnbull isn’t an economic question, it’s an evolutionary one

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

26 September 2015

9:00 AM

Economists offer one way to understand the world. Evolutionary psychologists offer another. Sometimes they overlap. Sometimes they don’t. Let’s consider what these two worldviews have to tell us about the Liberal Party’s recent regicide.

Economists see people as rational maximisers. Offer me something that improves my position, by however little, and the ‘rational man’ takes it.

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