If we want employment, opportunities, and economic growth, we need to remove constraints on the extent of the market that limit the social division of labor.

FORBES: You Can Always Depend on the Self-Interest of Strangers

Hunter-gatherers are traditionally believed to have lacked complex symbolic systems, social hierarchies, and the division of labor, three things you probably need before you can build a twenty-two-acre megalithic temple.

NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

In the late 1970s, I sat down with the mathematical theorist George Oster to work out the principles of caste and the division of labor in the social insects.

WSJ: Great Scientists Don't Need Math