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RIP Oliver Williamson

…and Simon over rationality in economics, with Arrow’s general equilibrium theory assuming perfect rationality by economic agents, while Simon had pushed the idea of bounded rationality. I then triggered a…

Nonviolence

…make them untrue. “King thinks human beings are sacred,” says Brandon Terry, a Harvard sociologist and co-author of a volume on King’s political philosophy. “We need, above all else, to…

Could JFK Be Saved Today?

…us think faster, work faster and better.” Carrico also told the commission that he’d written a letter to his children about the assassination, “just a little homespun philosophy. I just…

Populism

…simple answers. Ours are indeed changing, unsettling times, …, challenging times. Here and around the world, we see people displaced or abandoned by climate change, economic change, and, to an…

Conservatism

…more rights than anyone else, and not about clarity. Modern political/economic, hierarchical, conservatism is still very much all about this rationalization. Those making up this support group for the better…