{"id":1126,"date":"2025-01-12T10:15:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T08:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/?p=1126"},"modified":"2025-01-12T10:15:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T08:15:15","slug":"don-ross-the-gambling-animal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/?p=1126","title":{"rendered":"Don Ross: The Gambling Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What Drives Humanity’s Biggest Gambles?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While many of us shy away from taking risks as individuals, collectively we seem to have no problem embracing huge gambles\u2014even with the very existence of our species. How strange is that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why do humans take risks that no other species would dare? How did our ancestors\u2019 gambles\u2014sometimes reckless, sometimes ingenious\u2014shape our evolution? And could the very trait that made us dominant on Earth now lead to our downfall?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On January 20, 2025<\/strong>, Don Ross<\/strong>, a leading economist and philosopher, will join the ReSES Project<\/strong> to explore the forces behind humanity\u2019s unique relationship with risk, how it shaped our history, and the bets we\u2019re making today as a species. In this talk, he will give us an exclusive preview of his latest research, connecting dots between ancient survival strategies, modern economic systems, and the existential challenges we face today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Speaker<\/strong>
Don Ross<\/a> is a globally recognized thinker, known for his bold, interdisciplinary approach to both economics and philosophy. He is an experimental economist and philosopher of science, based at University College Cork in Ireland since 2016, the University of Cape Town in South Africa since 1997, and Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA since 2010. Ross is a prolific writer, with many academic articles and books on a wide range of topics. He has also done policy consulting for public and corporate clients, including the World Bank, the South African National Roads Agency, the US Department of Commerce, and the Government of Namibia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don Ross is the co-author (w\/Glenn Harrison) of the forthcoming book, The Gambling Animal: Humanity\u2019s Evolutionary Winning Streak – and How We Risk It All<\/em> (more info<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the ReSES Project<\/strong>
The Rethinking the Serviceability of Economics to Society (ReSES)<\/strong> project explores the role and ability of economics in addressing most pressing challenges. It brings together researchers, practitioners, and curious minds to rethink how economic thinking serves\u2014or fails to serve\u2014society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Join us on January 20 to rethink what we know about humanity\u2019s greatest gambles\u2014and where they might lead us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udcc5 Date:<\/strong> January 20, 2025
\ud83d\udd52 Time:<\/strong> 14:00 (Helsinki time, EET)
\ud83d\udccd Location:<\/strong> Online via Zoom \ud83d\udd17 https:\/\/helsinki.zoom.us\/j\/64608700680?pwd=4ME38oS3b8bDezhAnl8JRWFjynbIfj.1<\/a>
\ud83d\udce7 Contact<\/strong>: contact (at) reses-argumenta.fi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About the Host<\/strong>
\ud83d\udc4b Hi, I\u2019m Emrah<\/a>, and I\u2019ll be your host for this event! I\u2019m a philosopher of economics at the University of Helsinki and the leader of the ReSES Project. I\u2019m also one of the Chief Editors of the Journal of Economic Methodology. I\u2019m passionate about exploring how economic thinking shapes our world, with a focus on models, institutions, and their real-world impact. I look forward to welcoming you to this exciting conversation with Don Ross!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What Drives Humanity’s Biggest Gambles? While many of us shy away from taking risks as individuals, collectively we seem to have no problem embracing huge gambles\u2014even with the very existence of our species. How strange is that? Why do humans take risks that no other species would dare? How did our ancestors\u2019 gambles\u2014sometimes reckless, sometimes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,42],"tags":[63,11,65,10,64],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-in-english","category-reses-id-seminar","tag-don-ross","tag-economics","tag-evolution","tag-id-seminars","tag-risk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reses-argumenta.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}