Jukka Aakula

“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.”
― Jean Tirole, Economics for the Common Good

“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

“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

“Representation is a principle which is fundamentally just and vital to the successful conduct of industry…Surely it is not consistent for us as Americans to demand democracy in government and practice autocracy in industry…With the developments of industry what they are today there is sure to come a progressive evolution from autocratic single control, whether by capital, labor, or the state,”
― David Sloan Wilson, This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution