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regressive, meaning that they impose a disproportionate burden on poorer populations,

Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

This disproportionate power that proportional representation gives the third-largest party is an embarrassing feature of a system whose whole raison d’être, and supposed moral justification, is to allocate political influence proportionately.

David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

“Maximizing the most good for the most number of people” can lead to repugnant conclusions when applied at-scale

Erik Hoel • ‎EconTalk on Apple Podcasts

Inequality is the disproportion of the role of the tail—rich people were in the tails of the distribution.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

macht ihn zunehmend blind für einen der wichtigsten Grundsätze der Gerechtigkeit: die Verhältnismäßigkeit.

Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)

For the fragile, shocks bring higher harm as their intensity increases (up to a certain level).

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

They proved that any weighting of uncertain outcomes that is not strictly proportional to probability leads to inconsistencies and other disasters.

Daniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and Slow

reap a disproportionate amount of the benefits of the Intelligent

Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

which are regressive because they burden the poor more than the rich.