Sublime

adhering to family values.

as Weygand writes, “the quintessential aristocrats of mendicancy” (a fancier-sounding and less racially loaded version, perhaps, of the contemporary image of the “welfare queen”).

When fluctuations in mortality are high due to epidemic disease, famine, or other causes, the relative risk of mortality in warfare falls. The declining frequency of eruptions in death rates from the sixteenth century onward helps explain smaller family size and, ultimately, the far lower tolerance of sudden death in war today as compared to the

These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.

“the Law of the Vital Few.”

The people around us influence how we perceive the global society. In other words, we use our own social milieu to make inferences about how people we don’t know live their lives. But this may backfire when we live in homogeneous social environments and rarely meet people living in different circumstances. English psychologist Rael Dawtry and his

The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.

Money emerges from uncertainty, capital emerges from money, and uncertainty emerges from capital.