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“Children have an initial inclination to help, but extrinsic rewards may diminish it. Socialization practices can thus build on these tendencies, working in concert rather than in conflict with children’s natural predisposition to act altruistically.”
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
cooperation at scale. The state, business, and civil society all have roles to play in creating the
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
“You should not distort your learning processes to accommodate the delusion.” Unfortunately, this same mindset is taking root within the sustainability community, where in our fervor to have comparability and objectivity, we spend endless hours on backwards-looking and incomplete metrics of environmental, social, and governance performance instead
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Economically relevant information is discovered from experimentation, not deduced from a model.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
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.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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social accountability, such as environmental sustainability, community revitalization, or global equity.
Juliet Schor • A Sustainable Economy for the 21st Century (Open Media Series)
Think about diversity broadly. Did you include women and underrepresented minorities as investors? How diverse is your board and executive team?