The Strangeness of Self-Deception

"It's a reminder of how strange everything is and how we use self deception to come to terms with that strangeness," he says. "There's certainly a degree to which the future can be influenced, but I think it's far more out of our control than we like to admit." He adds: "As an economist, as a social scientist, we often analyze the world as if nobody's in charge"

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