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::{{author|Adam Smith}} —{{br|The Wealth of Nations}}, Book 1, chapter IV.

...The separate realms have become “[[non-overlapping magisteria]],” to use {{author|Stephen Jay Gould}}’s excellent term.<ref>{{br|Rocks of Ages}}.</ref> It

...n nations in the same global supply chain would be impossible,<ref>Among {{Author|Thomas Friedman}}’s hot takes are “No two countries that have a McDonal

...paradox]], in honour of the late contrarian and anti-capitalist agitant, {{author|David Graeber}}, whose short book {{br|Bullshit Jobs: A Theory}}<ref>This b

...[Madoff]]’s regulators were ''not'' asleep at the switch because we have {{author|Harry Markopolos}}’s testimony that they ''can’t have been'': he kept p

...again, expect [[counsel]] to go to town here. This is where the frustrated author inside every [[Mediocre lawyer|modern securities lawyer]] really lets {{sex

...ive we have supplied it — we are in a period of “[[normal science]]”<ref>{{Author|Thomas Kuhn}}, {{br|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}}. If you take

...ments was free and instantaneous. It was like the sorcerer’s apprentice. {{author|Stanley Fish}} even wrote a [[How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

:— {{Author|G. K. Chesterton}}, ''Heretics''}}

{{author|Lawrence Lessig}} lays out the concept very well in his magnificent {{br|Co :—Llewelyn Thomas, quoted in {{author|Rory Sutherland}}’s {{br|Alchemy}}}}

...re-evaluate, and toss out whatever you might have concluded before now. {{author|Philip Tetlock}}’s “{{br|Superforecasters}}” are complex systems thin

{{author|David Lange}}<br>

:—{{author|Jonathan Haidt}}, {{br|The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by P

...conservative, or ''vice versa''. Just ask {{author|Helen Pluckrose}} or {{author|Kathleen Stock}}.

{{Author|Ray Kurzweil}} will tell you we are at an inflection point where our techno

In much the same vein, {{author|W. Edwards Deming}} writes<ref>{{br|The Essential Deming}}, ed. Joyce Orsin

{{Drop|I|t is said}} beatnik [[Fi-Fi]] hack and sometime swap pioneer {{author|Hunter Barkley}} came up with the idea of [[discredit derivatives]] at the

{{author|Venkatesh Rao}} on a podcast somewhere<ref>{{plainlink|https://www.infinite

{{Author|Charles Perrow}}’s account of the control-room at Three Mile Island as, w

...but making evaluation easy for ''The Man''. Your performance must be, in {{author|James C. Scott}}’s clever phrase, “[[legible]]”. Literally, ''[[machi