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So game theory is a branch of, originally, applied mathematics, used mostly in economics and political science, a little bit in biology, that gives us a mathematical taxonomy of social life and it predicts what people are likely to do and believe others will do in cases where everyone's actions affect everyone else.
It's just a simple matter of political will to do it.
I mean, I'm an economist, but this is ultimately not an economic question, it's a moral question: Are we willing, as Americans, are we as a society still capable of making the political choice to sacrifice now by paying more taxes in order to improve the long-term future of not only our kids, but our community?
However, the moral and political choice is still up to us, as citizens and as voters.
In ancient China, that means in exile, because Chinese emperors, they put their political enemies in exile beyond mountains.
Whether you're a political party insisting to your detriment on a very rigid notion of who belongs and who does not, whether you're the government protecting social institutions like marriage and restricting access of those institutions to the few, whether you're a teenager in her bedroom who's trying to jostle her relations with her parents, strangeness is a way to think about how we pave the way to new kinds of relations.
That's political correctness run amok, he made a stupid statement, move on."
For the Christ, the temptations are economic, political and spiritual.
So dolphins are also political animals, so they have to resolve conflicts.
And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our minds in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists.
Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tendency to maximize power and wealth.
Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.
It's no wonder that many political leaders, and I don't exclude myself, have lost the trust of our people.
And participation took place in the agora, the agora having two meanings, both a marketplace and a place where there was political deliberation.
Believe me, I have been, I am, part of today's political system, and I know things must change.
Bruno Giussani: You seem to describe a political leadership that is kind of unprepared and a prisoner of the whims of the financial markets, and that scene in Brussels that you describe, to me, as a citizen, is terrifying.
For example, these were state-of-the-art weapons systems in 1400 A.D. Now they were both very expensive to build and maintain, but with these you could dominate the populace, and the distribution of political power in feudal society reflected that.
And as armies grew in size, the nation-state arose as a political and logistical requirement of defense.
But if you're a repressive government searching for political enemies, you might instead remove them, eliminate them, disrupt their social group, and those who remain behind lose social cohesion and organization.
And ideas achieving critical mass is what political activism in popular government is all about.
And this would put a chill on free speech and popular political action, the very heart of democracy.
Sooner or later, all of humanity, regardless of culture, language, nationality, will arrive at this final stage of political and social development.
Sooner or later, electoral democracy will be the only political system for all countries and all peoples, with a free market to make them all rich.
In the last 20 years, Western elites tirelessly trotted around the globe selling this prospectus: Multiple parties fight for political power and everyone voting on them is the only path to salvation to the long-suffering developing world.
Three assumptions are made by the dominant political theories of our time.
Now, most political scientists will tell us that a one-party system is inherently incapable of self-correction.
In 64 years of running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies has been wider than any other country in recent memory, from radical land collectivization to the Great Leap Forward, then privatization of farmland, then the Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reform, then successor Jiang Zemin took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople, something unimaginable during Mao's rule.
Political leaders used to retain their positions for life, and they used that to accumulate power and perpetuate their rules.
One thing we often hear is, "Political reforms have lagged far behind economic reforms," and "China is in dire need of political reform."
But this claim is a rhetorical trap hidden behind a political bias.
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