Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Macro Hive Conversations With Bilal Hafeez
Bilal Hafeez
Ep. 370: Eric Beinhocker on Market Humanism, the End of Neoliberalism, and Human Flourishing
49 minutes Posted Aug 7, 2026 at 8:11 am.
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Eric Beinhocker is a professor at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government and the founder and executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School (INET Oxford), a research center dedicated to applying innovative economics to major societal challenges. He is also Chairman of the Science Board at the Santa Fe Institute. Prior to his academic career, Beinhocker spent three decades as a technology entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and consultant to Fortune 500 companies. He is the author of The Origin of Wealth: The Radical Remaking of Economics and What It Means for Business and Society. 

  1. The Collapse of Neoliberalism
  2. The "Market Humanism" Synthesis
  3. From Homoeconomicus to Homo Sapiens
  4. Markets as Evolutionary Engines
  5. Value as Problem-Solving
  6. The Structural Reality of Inequality
  7. "Middle-Out" vs. "Trickle-Down" Growth
  8. The State as a Market Shaper
  9. Macrocosm: Modelling the Economy with AI
  10. Human Skills in the Age of AI