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The same three essential elements characterize the agents and their strategies in the financial system. There is descent because investors develop their strategies by inheriting knowledge from their mentors, as well as learning from their own prior experience. There is variation because investors tinker with their strategies to improve them. There
... See moreJ. Doyne Farmer • Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World
Over a century after Darwin’s science-shattering tome, evolutionary biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky published an essay entitled “Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.” This title pithily encapsulates the universality of Darwin’s theory. If a scientist somewhere uncovers some fact about biology but it doesn’t fit with
... See moreAndrew Steele • Ageless: The New Science of Getting Older Without Getting Old
Tanner Greer • Tradition is Smarter Than You Are
Steven Johnson’s book Where Good Ideas Come From advances what we could call a network theory of human achievement, one that has its best metaphor in ecology, the constant interdependence of many unseen forces that “compulsively connect and remix that most valuable of resources: information.”
Joshua Wolf Shenk • Powers of Two: Finding the Essence of Innovation in Creative Pairs
How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Humans carry around legacy behaviors and biases, jerry-rigged holdovers from earlier stages of evolution that follow their own obsolete rules. What seem like erratic, irrational choices are, in fact, strategies created long ago for solving other kinds of problems. We’re all trapped in the bodies of sly, social-climbing opportunists shaped to
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