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Kakonomics is the strange yet widespread preference for mediocre exchanges insofar as nobody complains about them.
David Brooks • This Will Make You Smarter
Let us remember that economists are evaluated on how intelligent they sound, not on a scientific measure of their knowledge of reality.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto Book 1)
This prompted me to review many of the hundreds of books published each year on society, economics and politics. While many offer a striking diagnosis, most offer little in the way of prescription, which is usually left to a final chapter.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The economist Thorstein Veblen observed that in some cases increasing price can, by itself, increase demand and decreasing price can, by itself, decrease demand.
William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler • Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design
One promising way of redefining the meaning of ‘economist’ is to look to those who have gone beyond new economic thinking to new economic doing: the innovators who are evolving the economy one experiment at a time.