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Fuller cautions: Specialization tends to shut off the wide-band tuning searches and thus to preclude further discovery.
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
Paradoxically, many government interventions and social policies end up hurting the weak and consolidating the established.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
It’s one of the little ironies of economic progress that, while it often results in greater levels of comfort, it depends on people who prefer not to get too comfortable.
Michael Lewis • The New New Thing
Where differences fascinate, says Stephen Jay Gould, generalities instruct.
Timur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1974
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Economics in One Less - Henry Hazlitt
Unreasonable distributions of wealth have always turned their fire on reason.
Matthew Stewart • An Emancipation of the Mind
Man-made smoothing of randomness produces the equivalent of John’s income: smooth, steady, but fragile.