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The government (or a well-meaning NGO) should make the option that it thinks is the best for most people the default choice, so that people will need to actively move away from it if they want to.
Abhijit V. Banerjee • Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
“Los discípulos de Rousseau, que hablan tanto acerca de la naturaleza y la feliz condición del hombre en el estado natural, no se percataron que los medios de subsistencia son escasos y de que el estado natural del hombre es la pobreza extrema y la inseguridad. —Mientras los industriales mejoraban los métodos de producción para proveer un mejoramie
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David Graeber • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
Three important questions remain unanswered in this gigantic work, exposing a glaring hole in its logic. First, why is there no comparison of the 1920 and 1929 depressions? The former didn't last long even though the Fed did not intervene in the way the authors recommend. Second, why is it that the United States had never suffered a financial crisi
... See moreSaifedean Ammous • The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking
of larger society. So that’s a very old battle in human history between the self-serving stories of an elite and the stories that can actually help serve a broader society. Part of what we’ve seen in our economics is that elites previously used to appeal to gods, to how our ancestors did it, to the natural order, etc., to make credible their storie
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
