Beyond Intractability

Guy Burgess

We are, individually and collectively, falling into a complex series of mutually-reinforcing traps that are dramatically complicating efforts to deal with the COVID-19, racism and a wide range of other serious social…

Guy Burgess

From its earliest days, human society has been plagued by greedy individuals determined to dominate, oppress, and exploit others. Social evolution has been shaped by a…

By Guy Burgess

The five previous stories present us with an urgent question: how are we going to get through the pandemic and its associated economic collapse in our hyper-polarized…

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Guy Burgess

The one book that I required my sons to read as part of their college education was John Kenneth Galbraith’s Short History of Financial Euphoria which traces…

By Guy Burgess

There is always a reason to hope that today’s hyper-polarized acrimony will correctly be interpreted as evidence that we have allowed things to go too far and that cooler heads…