“Cogs and Monsters” by Diane Coyle

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  • Economics has a strong self-fulfilling prophecy component
  • Our fixed preferences are not known to us
  • “The plural of anecdote is not data.”
  • Counterfactuals are important for tests
  • Cooperation requires more compute power than self interest
  • Expertise is a claim to authority over others
  • “‘Unintended’ does not mean ‘unforeseeable’”

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