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- Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups intelligent - independence,…
- Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that each of the…
- Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
- Moviegoers love the intricacies of a crime all the more when it's for a good cause.
- If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.
- The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by investment banks betting against the housing market in 2007. It was caused by the fact that…
- All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
- If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were…
- In the days when corporate downsizing was all the rage, Wall Street took a lot of flak for judging companies too harshly and setting the…
- Nike used to be known as Blue Ribbon Sports. What's now Sara Lee used to be Consolidated Foods. And Exxon was once Standard Oil Company…
- Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's…
- Standards wars involve lots of variables, and understanding them often seems more an art than a science. They generally involve just two big players, and…
- The reason advertising is governed by fear, after all, is that most agencies rely on just a few clients to bring in the lion's share…
- To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole.…
- What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will…
- When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle