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It’s essential that we understand things like the free-rider problem, but we also need to understand that, fortunately, humans are a little nicer than economists give them credit for. Some people actually leave money at roadside fruit stands; some people give money to NPR so we can listen to it.

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Anybody who’s ever been in a large organization realizes that ‘optimizing’ is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it’s full of people, who are complicated.

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I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he’s very good at conning academics into writing books. He pulled this trick on me.

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May 26, 2024

I have an agent, John Brockman, who is an agent to many academic authors like Dan Gilbert and Steven Pinker, and he’s very good at conning academics into writing books. He pulled this trick on me.

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May 26, 2024

Anybody who’s ever been in a large organization realizes that ‘optimizing’ is not a word that would often be used to describe any large organization. The reason is that it’s full of people, who are complicated.

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