Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action is an examination of the nature of the commons, and the evolution and development of self-organisation and self-governance of those commons. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action will be of interest to those who seek an understanding of common-pool resources and their self-governance. […]
Mossberg: The Disappearing Computer
Tech was once always in your way. Soon, it will be almost invisible. A key question – What’s going to be always in our way next? All of the major tech players, companies from other industries and startups whose names we don’t know yet are working away on some or all of the new […]
WHY FACTS DON’T CHANGE OUR MINDS
Three Book Reviews about How Humans Reason or Not. New discoveries about the human mind show the limitations of reason. “The Enigma of Reason,” “The Knowledge Illusion,” and “Denying to the Grave” were all written before the November election. And yet they anticipate Kellyanne Conway and the rise of “alternative facts.” These days, it can […]
How to Build an Autocracy
A Long Read – Vital for understanding how Institutions are the Value keystones of a democracy. The preconditions are present in the U.S. today. Here’s the playbook Donald Trump could use to set the country down a path toward illiberalism. Everything imagined above—and everything described below—is possible only if many people other than Donald […]
The Five Letter Word That Spells the End of Societies
Trust in Institutions protects our democracy and a market system. The collapse of trust is almost exactly like climate change. We cannot simply wave a magic wand, and “fix” it. It is much more poisonous than we suspect. It creates a vicious cycle where societies are unable to invest in public goods, people’s standard of […]