Tragedy of the Commons After 50 Years & A New Model of the Rational Actor

"[Elinor Ostrom] then developed a 'second-generation model of rationality' in which humans are 'complex, fallible learners who seek to do as well as they can given the constraints that they face and who are able to learn heuristics, norms, rules, and how to craft rules to improve achieved outcomes' (E. Ostrom 1998, p. 9). The … Continue reading Tragedy of the Commons After 50 Years & A New Model of the Rational Actor

Steven Pinker’s Rules For Writing

Reverse-engineer what you read. If it feels like good writing, what makes it good? If it’s awful, why?Prose is a window onto the world. Let your readers see what you are seeing by using visual, concrete language.Don’t go meta. Minimize concepts about concepts, like “approach, assumption, concept, condition, context, framework, issue, level, model, perspective, process, … Continue reading Steven Pinker’s Rules For Writing