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"Nice discussion on EV positive tipping point. "As we saw from Norway and China, policies including subsidies and tax credits can help trigger positive tipping within a country. But they can also trigger a positive tipping cascade across countries. To see that we can turn to a unique model developed by my colleagues Jean-Francois Mercure and Aileen Lam, which captures the feedbacks that can propel technology change."" — Oct 01, 2025 09:46PM
"Nice discussion on EV positive tipping point. "As we saw from Norway and China, policies including subsidies and tax credits can help trigger positive tipping within a country. But they can also trigger a positive tipping cascade across countries. To see that we can turn to a unique model developed by my colleagues Jean-Francois Mercure and Aileen Lam, which captures the feedbacks that can propel technology change."" — Oct 01, 2025 09:46PM
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Reread the book after 8 years.I think this is the most realistic picture of "how the human species developed into an ultrasocial species with social preferences (not only self-regarding ones)". But not only that - it also analyzes many economic and s ...more "
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"Sapolsky in his book Behave discusses behavior on many levels "why it does make evolutionary sense", "how does it work in the human brain" etc.
Bowles discusses cooperation both on proximate and ultimate level. For evolutionary economy proximate level is naturally the preference level (e.g. "Does a human have social preferences or not") and the ultimate level the question is "how did social preferences evolve"." — Oct 12, 2024 12:49AM
"Sapolsky in his book Behave discusses behavior on many levels "why it does make evolutionary sense", "how does it work in the human brain" etc.
Bowles discusses cooperation both on proximate and ultimate level. For evolutionary economy proximate level is naturally the preference level (e.g. "Does a human have social preferences or not") and the ultimate level the question is "how did social preferences evolve"." — Oct 12, 2024 12:49AM
A longstanding notion has it that the course and contours of early American history were determined by the shifts in Euro-American power dynamics and the reactions of metropolitan headquarters in Madrid, London, Versailles, Mexico City, and
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“Tetlock selects Marx and libertarians31 as examples of hedgehogs who stick to a simple worldview and whose grand predictions never materialize.”
― Economics for the Common Good
― Economics for the Common Good
“Sociologists rightly emphasize the importance of not observing individuals out of context, that is, without taking into account their social environment. Individuals are part of social groups, and these groups affect how they will behave.”
― Economics for the Common Good
― Economics for the Common Good
“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.”
― Economics for the Common Good
― Economics for the Common Good
“Modern microeconomics is based on game theory, which represents and predicts the strategies of agents who have their own goals and are interdependent, and information theory, which models their strategic use of private information.”
― Economics for the Common Good
― Economics for the Common Good
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