Governance


Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
The Prince
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
The Origins of Totalitarianism
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Democracy in America
Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions)
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
The Communist Manifesto
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione
Eraldo Banovac
Planning, secured financial resources for the timely purchase of energy, and the availability of energy supplies are essential factors of energy security. Deeper reflection reveals that the second and third stem from the first.
Eraldo Banovac

Safety isn't about governance structures," he went on, "I mean, if you have a governance board, it probably wouldn't do the right thing when it came to the crunch.  Same thing with a safety charter.  You can try to negotiate one.  But it's not realistic to create bright-line principles years in advance because you'll probably draw the lines in the wrong places.  So discussing these things didn't really help," Hassabis continued, "It made it harder to build useful trust, because when you negotiat ...more
Sebastian Mallaby, The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind, and the Quest for Superintelligence

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