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How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Jul 27, 2017
People take the original research work of others [Joseph Tainter's brilliant research, in Diamond's case], then write it according to The Establishment Rules, and win those useless Pulitzer prizes [everyone appears to be unfamilair with Pulitzer's background, 'natch!], and then Diamond is in the same rarefied company of George Will and Stephen Hunter [/sarc]. Same occurred with Paul Krugman, who took someone else's original research, then put forth some submediocre position, and wins that Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economics, always incorrectly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics - - but neither the Nobel family nor Nobel Foundation has anything to do with this crud????