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Collective action problems

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This story about the conflicts among residents and the condo board at Champlain Towers South as a report indicated that major repairs were needed to maintain the structural integrity of the building will be familiar to many people who have lived in condos or co-ops, only...
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The Villainous Economist Problem

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Economists have a special power to cause problems if they choose to be villains. This is because of our twin obsessions with money and data. They are seen to have special tools to understand society and since we fetishize "data," they have access to big media....
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Heckuva job, Stevie

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It probably shouldn't be surprising that the most consistently wrong man in America, Hair Club for Growth co-founder Stephen Moore, played a major role in the Trump administration's disastrous pandemic response: I’m currently reading “Nightmare Scenario,” an account by Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta of the...
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