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How Inequality Dampens Support For Public Goods

The Horizons Tracker

The authors suggest that when a degree of inequality exists, and specifically when both groups are still able to exert enough influence to hold the other to account for their contributions, then those with higher productivity were more likely to contribute.

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Embrace the Complexity of Cyber Defense

Harvard Business Review

Ordinary people have little incentive to secure their home computers using available technology; Internet censorship and surveillance is intertwined with questions of free speech and privacy; and concern over Chinese cyber-espionage is now a high-priority diplomatic issue. Such technical improvements will not be sufficient, however.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

He then usually brings in the tools of game theory, in which his protagonists have to contend with other rational actors and the moves they might make. In the early 1980s, the game theory approach to studying industries promised to be the next big wave in strategy. The Theory of Industrial Organization was just the first.