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Face-to-Face with FacebookNEW YORK – Long ago, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in grade school, I wrote a book (Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age) in which I lauded something called “P3” (now p3p), the platform for privacy
preferences.
Do his style and
preferences
differ significantly from those of his predecessor, Hu Jintao?
While that is also true of many for-profit companies, the market trumps their leaders’
preferences.
Automobile companies cannot adjust immediately to a change in consumer
preferences
regarding what type of cars they want to purchase, or how frequently.
Individual savings let each household choose its own level of savings to accord with its
preferences
and needs.
In recent years, developments at the frontier of evolutionary biology, psychology, and anthropology, together with the emergence of new fields, such as neuroeconomics, social and affective neuroscience, and contemplative neuroscience, have shown that humans can be motivated by pro-social preferences, like fairness and concern for others’ welfare or rights.
Moreover, experimental data suggest that, contrary to mainstream economic theory, people’s
preferences
are changeable.
The emerging field of contemplative neuroscience has begun to produce evidence for plasticity of pro-social
preferences
and motivation.
Such findings have started to inspire fields like experimental microeconomics and neuroeconomics, which, in turn, have begun to incorporate pro-social
preferences
into their decision-making frameworks.
It is up to the US to work with China and others to do this, and this requires America’s openness to others’
preferences
and their having a larger role.
In a truly integrated European and global economy there is no need for nations with different languages, traditions, and
preferences
to unite and coordinate a series of economic policies.
In terms of durability and conviction of preferences, most societies place greater hurdles in the way of a couple seeking a divorce than Prime Minister David Cameron’s government did on the decision to leave the EU.
People could modulate their voice to reflect the intensity of their preferences, with a presiding officer carefully listening and then declaring the outcome.
But when a currency’s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset-diversification
preferences
of advanced-economy investors, it can and should be resisted.
And if those identities are very different in their values, preferences, or interests, fragmentation and polarization are not far apart.
After all, inequality can reflect differences in preferences: some people might consider the pursuit of material wealth more worthwhile than others.
Even if a preferential voting mechanism were to be employed, with voters ranking their
preferences
from one to five on the ballot paper, the process of successive elimination of the less-preferred options would be mechanical on the day of the referendum, ruling out any debate between rounds of elimination.
They cannot simply wait for America to move, nor can they always seek to placate Washington's
preferences.
ECONOMIC STABILITYEconomic theory has created an artificial world in which the participants
' preferences
and the opportunities confronting them are independent of each other, and prices tend toward an equilibrium that brings the two forces into balance.
But in financial markets prices are not merely the passive reflection of independently given demand and supply; they also play an active role in shaping those
preferences
and opportunities.
Beneath the individual
preferences
that found expression in market behavior, people were guided by a set of moral principles that found expression in behavior outside the scope of the market mechanism.
Advertising, marketing, even packaging, aim at shaping people's
preferences
rather than, as laissez-faire theory holds, merely responding to them.
In the benign scenario, people will club together in different states on the basis of their
preferences
for big or small government, public or private provision of services, and international cooperation or isolationism.
“Once people are in power,” she laments, “they vote according to their own preferences,” not those of the voters who put them there.
According to Charnock, “People believe that the digital world largely masks their
preferences
for different individuals.
With news becoming more narrowly targeted to individual interests and preferences, and with people increasingly choosing whom to trust and follow, the traditional channels for sharing expertise are being disrupted.
And, as a corollary, smaller parties seeking an electoral foothold have had to target political minorities, many of whom have strongly held
preferences
and beliefs.
True, given complex risk factors and idiosyncratic policy preferences, it has been particularly challenging of late to divine the logic underlying big exchange-rate swings.
Colonialists and African independence leaders erred when they ignored tribal preferences, rather than celebrating them and making them the cornerstone of a healthy democracy.
National governments are unlikely to cede significant control to transnational institutions, and harmonizing rules would not benefit societies with diverse needs and
preferences.
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