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people have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo or default option.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Holly Ensign-Barstow • From shareholder primacy to stakeholder capitalism
chapters, as when researchers apply an economy-wide value for disability-adjusted life years in evaluating health interventions that disproportionately favor poor communities. In these cases, as with distributional weights, the analyst places greater value on the well-being of the poor than their own willingness to pay would be able to reveal.
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
disadvantaged children who had experienced social adversity early in life and were more External in adolescence were the ones who developed diagnosable depression disorders as young adults.
Stephen Nowicki • Choice or Chance
The truth is that small schools are not better on average; they are simply more variable.
Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow
Douglas Thomas • From Community to Collective: Institution and Agency in the Age of Social Networks
The differing models of care also give rise to different data monitoring systems, which are not linked so as to facilitate shared decision-making.
Elizabeth Bradley • The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less
Overspecialization can lead to collective tragedy even when every individual separately takes the most reasonable course of action.