Robert Neild

Robert Neild is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge. Now 91, he has had a long career in academia, government service and international organisations; was first Director of SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) from 1967-1971. Recently he has been exploring and advocating the application of an evolutionary approach to economics and the other social sciences.

The dangerous denial of dangerous instincts

Power-seeking demagogues appeal, unknowingly, to our dangerous instinct to fear and hate rival groups: unknowingly, partly because the scientific community denies the existence of instinct.

By Robert Neild

/ 19 Jul 2016