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“His latest book and the subject of today's conversation is When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows, Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life.”
When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows by Steven Pinker
Guest on EconTalkSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge
“In a previous book, The Stuff of Thought, Language is a Window into Human Nature, and I expand on it in When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows.”
The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
Guest on EconTalkSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge
“And here I reiterate an idea that I developed in my previous book, Rationality, of why rational species can entertain so much conspiracy theorizing and medical quackery and superstition and preposterous belief in miracles and so on.”
Rationality by Steven Pinker
Guest on EconTalkSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge
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“It was made famous 50 years ago in Richard Dawkins' book, The Selfish Gene, because it poses a puzzle for evolutionary biology…”
The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Guest on EconTalkSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge
“So in the case, and a norm basically is a matter of common knowledge. We call it a norm as opposed to a law, because the only reason that it works is that everyone knows that everyone else knows that it exists. And it can unravel if people start to flout it. But in the case of, say, Ostrom and others like Larry Ellickson, Order Without Law, where the theory was that nothing short of enforcement by a third party can get people to stop overgrazing the commons.”
Order Without Law by Robert C. Ellickson
Guest on EconTalkSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge