Writing about the Tangled Web, Atanu Dey (his new series 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and more to come) points to the work of Thomas Schelling.
Thomas Schelling is the 2005 Nobel Prize winning Economist for “having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis.”
Atanu points to a quote in an article by Tim Harford: “. . . his work treats human frailties as something to be analysed and worked with, rather than denounced or denied.”
Atanu concludes, “That lies at the crux of a multitude of failures. People don’t fully appreciate the fact that what we have is frail human nature and if we refuse to confront reality, we are likely to make public policies that are wrong-headed and disastrous because they are built upon fairy-tale visions of human nature.”
Discussing and reading about the environmental issues I have come…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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