Jukka Aakula

“The truth is that we have little empirical knowledge about the connection between merit and success in most countries, and that is precisely the heart of the problem: in the absence of information, anyone can believe what they want.”
― Jean Tirole, Economics for the Common Good

“the collective reputation is a public good for the group. Defending the collective reputation entails an entirely private cost but a benefit that is shared by the whole community. This is why there is a tendency toward free-riding.”
― Jean Tirole, Economics for the Common Good

“small groups are a fundamental unit of human social organization. Individuals cannot be understood except in the context of small groups, and large-scale societies need to be seen as a kind of multicellular organism comprising small groups.”
― David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution

“One key adaptation of a malignant cancer is to increase the rate of mutations. A fast-growing tumor isn’t just one type of cancer cell that is rapidly proliferating. It is a boiling cauldron of hyper-mutating cell lines that compete against each other. Another adaptive strategy for a cancer cell is to disperse so that it can compete against normal cells rather than against other cancer cells—metastasis.”
― David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution