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“The Paradox of Choice,” Barry Schwartz used numerous examples, from shopping to career options to romance, to show that less choice can not only increase our productivity,

Wright, Robert. NonZero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000.

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Wilson explains that man is perpetually suspended between the two extreme forces that created us: “Individual selection [which] prompted sin and group selection [which] promoted virtue.” Which of these forces (self-interest or collective interest) wins out in any organization is a function of that organization’s culture, which is a function of the

I believe that most people would agree that we will not create a healthier society by affording women the equal right to be as pathologically egocentric as a large proportion of men have been for millennia, to acquire the equal opportunity to excel in the patho-adolescent, class-dividing world of prestige, position, and wealth, academic and corpora

Realistically, agents not identical, don’t know other agents’ circumstances or likely behavior; or situation complicated and not fully known. There is fundamental uncertainty: Therefore “the problem” is not well-defined; Therefore “rationality” is not well-defined; Therefore “optimal” behavior is not well-defined; Behavior and outcome unlikely to b