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Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have…

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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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Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error. — Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the consolations of middle aged reformers that the good that they inculcate must live after them if it… — Hector Hugh Munro
Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to… — Bertrand Russell
We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human… — Isaiah Berlin
Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain… — Thomas George Bonney
Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic… — George Orwell
Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity. — George Bernard Shaw
To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin… — Adolf Hitler
Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the… — Swami Vivekananda
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles
We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is… — Will Durant

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