Designing for Adaptability: What Evolution and Institutional Theory Teach Us About Building Societies
A Talk by Paul Dragos Aligicia and David Sloane Wilson
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About this Talk
An economist and an evolutionary biologist join forces to explore what Free Cities can teach us about human society—and what their respective disciplines can offer in return. In this thought-provoking session, they argue that Free Cities serve as experimental microcosms where new systems of governance, cooperation, and coordination can be tested in real time. Far from being abstract theory, these real-world experiments offer powerful opportunities to apply, refine, and even advance the fields of institutional economics and evolutionary biology—creating a feedback loop between practice and research that could reshape how we understand progress itself.