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Il serait également utile de multiplier les universités populaires qui offriraient aux citoyens une initiation à la pensée complexe, permettant d’embrasser les problèmes fondamentaux et globaux et de dispenser une connaissance non mutilée, d’une part, et, d’autre part, une initiation aux sciences historiques, politiques, sociologiques, économiques,

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They included too few subjects, they were not randomized, they did not properly compare the orders with alternatives, and judges were not even asked to record how they would otherwise have sentenced offenders. The culture of public service

If we insist on argument as the essence of education, we will defend democracy not as the most efficient but as the most educational form of government, one that extends the circle of debate as widely as possible and thus forces all citizens to articulate their views, to put their views at risk, and to cultivate the virtues of eloquence, clarity of

She said much of the finance industry has too narrow a view of its strategy and goals. It often becomes a short-term, almost zero-sum game with many investors focused only on small relative gains won against each other.

A staggering 98 percent of all published articles in the arts and humanities are never cited, and the corresponding figure for articles in the social sciences is 75 percent, a figure only slightly less dismaying.

high leverage is not always good.

as Raghuram Rajan puts it, “What is particularly alarming is that the risk taking may well have been in the best ex ante interests of their shareholders.”

The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.