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people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
courts can point the way to doing what is "right."
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
Noble intentions and lofty rhetoric about justice and equality are not enough. The kinds of policies and interventions that benefit people often sound bad. Those that hurt people often sound good.
Dan Williams • On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)
Yet any sophisticated, large-scale market depends on well-designed and well-enforced rules of the game without which rampant theft, constant breaking of contracts, and the rule of the physically strongest would prevail. These rules can be boiled down to three principles: freedom, competition, and openness.
Eric Posner, E. Weyl • Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
“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
Extremists are often following one another.
Cass R. Sunstein • Conformity
Robert Goodin wrote a whole treatise on this topic, On Settling,