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Formal. Requires at least some mathematics - especially game theory. But very good book on what is driving democratization.
An easier one by Acemoglu is "Why Nations Fail [and succeed" which discusses the problem of institutional development and deve ...more "
Americans and Europeans were guided through the new century by a tale about “the end of history,” by what I will call the politics of inevitability, a sense that the future is just more of the present, that the laws of progress are known,
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“Research shows that too much disparity in the salaries of members of professional sports teams undermines their cohesion as a group.”
― This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
― 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.”
― This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
― This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
“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.”
― This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
― This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution
“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
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