Maybe people aren’t as stupid as psychologists think
by Luke Rodgers on December 31, 2008
While browsing the slides from Joshua Porter’s lecture, Leveraging Cognitive Bias in Social Design, I came across the following one, which presents the canonical example of the conjunction fallacy from Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman:
I wonder if a better explanation (…)
Greenspan’s mea culpa
by Luke Rodgers on December 20, 2008
Alan Greenspan reflects on how his ideological belief in the ability of markets to self-regulate has been shaken. Henry Waxman, Chairman of the Oversight [pun?] and Government Reform Committee is on a bit of a self-righteous crusade and is obviously (…)
Could you have a base without a superstructure?
by Luke Rodgers on December 16, 2008
I don’t believe the terms ‘base’ and ’superstructure’ were articulated by Marx/Engels until later, but the gist of these distinctions is already apparent in the earlier work, The German Ideology. Reading the first part, on Feuerbach, one can’t fail to (…)
Ontario launches anti-poverty plan amidst economic turmoil
by Luke Rodgers on December 8, 2008
The Ontario government has launched a comprehensive anti-poverty plan that is receing warm reception from advocates like the 25in5 Network for Poverty Reduction. The fact that this has taken place during particularly bad times for Ontario’s economy is all the (…)
