087: Complexity and the commons with Simon Levin
In Common
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Applied Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley
When i got my degree, which was in 19 64, i wanted an fellowship to go off to berkeley and work with a distinguished person in operations research named george dansick. And we were working on applications of mathematical techniques to problems in physiology. But i had spent a lot of time in the outdoors, and i was really very interested in conservation and preservation. When i got tenure, essentially half of that tenure was in the echology department. A year later, while i was on sabaticl they asked me to be chair of the department. I basically told the deans i would do it if they would move almost all of my appointment, and eventually all of my
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