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An ongoing controversy in the field of addiction medicine is whether people who have been using drugs in an addictive way can return to moderate, nonrisky use.
Anna Lembke • Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
The prevalence information, which informs peer codes, mattered more than the penalty information, which is relevant to rational cost-benefit calculations. This confirmed it: peer codes (not rational calculations) propel many acts of corruption.
Michael Morris • Tribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
The study found a 44-to-45-percent greater reduction in crime and arrests in BID areas compared to neighboring areas. BIDs are also associated with a significantly higher drop in police arrests: about ten fewer arrests per year in a neighborhood, or a 32-percent yearly decline. In our examination of actual BID private security expenditures, the evi
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
we are looking for them to be experts on the facts and then participants in the values discussion.
Robert MacCoun • Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense
identifying what the empirical evidence suggests doing. In
Walker Deibel • Buy Then Build: How Acquisition Entrepreneurs Outsmart the Startup Game
And this, in turn, raised the question of whether or not we want people to be treated or to be punished.
Sarah Schulman • Conflict Is Not Abuse
Who chooses? Who uses? Who pays? Who profits?
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Lessig proposes a framework where behaviors of all sorts are regulated by four forces: law, code, norms, and markets.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
confine the spread of venereal disease