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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Grove Art)
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Edward O. Wilson, “Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
Atkins, Paul W. B.;Wilson, David Sloan.;Hayes, Steven C.; • Prosocial
Under-appreciated fact: today’s Nobel is, in large part, given for formally introducing class struggle into mainstream theory and empirics of economic growth and political development.
Their models of democratization and much of their historical analysis is effectively an argument that in some places, historical circumstances drove bargaining power... See more
Their models of democratization and much of their historical analysis is effectively an argument that in some places, historical circumstances drove bargaining power... See more
Chris Blattman • Tweet
foment greater violence and more crime.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Ceux qui refusent de réagir de manière adéquate pour protéger leur territoire risquent autant de se faire exploiter que ceux qui ne peuvent se défendre pour des raisons d’incapacité ou de déséquilibre flagrant des forces en présence.
Jordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
Socrates—who, like Adam Smith, argued that people are generally good even without enforcement.
Stephen J. Dubner • Freakonomics
What we learn from this is that people will resort to violence if they can get away with it when it provides them with benefits.