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Now, “the market” is a name for a simplistic algorithm to create profit. The last 40 years demonstrate that the consequences of using it as the exclusive method for making decisions include gross inequality among humans and the wrecking of the health of the biosphere.
Paying Ourselves to Decarbonize | NOEMA
Kim Stanley Robinson
Unless you understand “why” things are the way they are (and there often is a method to every madness, if you’re patient to dig deep enough), any proposal you might have on “how” to improve the situation might end up very much going against the grain, making it that much more of an uphill task for your proposal to be accepted.
Know How Your Org Works
Cindy Sridharan
Drawing on Ian Hacking’s philosophy of social science, Berman explains that “styles of reasoning are not scientific paradigms, nor are they particular theories or models. Instead, they are collections of orienting concepts, ways of thinking about problems, causal assumptions, and approaches to methodology.”
What Could Replace the Economic Style?
Frank Pasquale
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