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All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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Other conditions being equal, if one force is hurled against another ten times its size, the result will be the flight of… — Sun Tzu
All other things being equal, greens break to the west. — Ben Hogan
Other things being equal, it is the person who can lift his work up to the plane of the intuitional and inspiration… — Unknown Author
All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a… — Mark McCormack
Money is different from all other commodities: other things being equal, more shoes, or more discoveries of oil or copper benefit society,… — Murray Rothbard
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality." — Paulo Coelho
What I’ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. — Goldie Hawn
Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid. — Carl Sagan
Don’t ever underestimate the importance of money. I know it’s often been said that money won’t make you happy and this is… — Groucho Marx
Male and female citizens, being equal in the eyes of the law, must be equally admitted to all honors, positions, and public… — Olympe de Gouges
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as… — Aiden Wilson Tozer

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