In which we introduce the least known game in game theory, the game that explains (almost) all of civilization: the protector-provider game, aka swords against ploughshares.
An Economic Pattern Language: On Governance, by @oliverbeige. 100% handwritten.
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The director' office, from: László Moholy-Nagy (layout designer), Staatliches Bauhaus in Weimar 1919–1923 (1923).
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I didn't know the Borges story (Herb Simon was inspired by one of Borges's stories about the problem on decision complexity, but it's a different one). cambridge.org/core/journals/…
How to think about politics in five minutes, now on EconPatterns.
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Save the home from mechanistic anarchy! Walter Gropius, The new architecture and the Bauhaus, 1937. archive.org/details/newarchi…
"If we think of economic engines as a summary term for devices that provide economic benefits to their principals, we can contrast them against governance mechanisms as devices that benefit a larger group of participants, including multiple principals with diverging interests."
I, Pencil. My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read, The Freeman vol. 8, Dec. 1958. archive.org/details/sim_free…
