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4: Timur Kuran - The Economics of Revolution and Mass Deception

2019/8/20
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Timur Kuran:偏好伪装是理解政治极化和社会变革的关键。在社会压力下,人们往往会掩饰自己的真实想法,公开表达与群体一致的观点。这种现象在政治领域尤为突出,导致公众讨论缺乏多样性,难以达成共识。东欧共产主义的崩溃以及土耳其的世俗化改革,都体现了偏好伪装的巨大影响。在信息暴力盛行的环境下,人们更是被迫伪装自己的偏好,以避免遭受惩罚。 在现代社会,声誉暴力也成为一种重要的信息暴力形式,它通过社交媒体等渠道对个人进行攻击,从而迫使他们改变自己的观点。这种现象在美国社会中尤为普遍,导致人们不敢公开表达自己的真实想法,从而加剧了社会极化。 Eric Weinstein:偏好伪装理论具有深远的影响,它不仅可以解释政治现象,还可以解释经济学理论的局限性。经济学中对偏好的简单化假设,无法解释现实世界中的许多现象,例如选举结果的不可预测性以及市场效率的低下。 偏好伪装理论可以解释思想市场中存在的“黑市”,即那些无法在机构管理的市场中公开讨论的概念、愿望和恐惧。在政治领域,偏好伪装可能导致政治体系产生很少有人想要的、效率低下的结果,并损害知识的产生和发展。 此外,经济学领域也存在偏好伪装现象,一些经济学家为了获得职位或晋升机会,往往不敢挑战该领域的既定理论。这使得经济学理论难以发展和完善。我们需要那些具有正直品格的人,他们在逆境中坚持自己的立场,为我们树立榜样。

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Preference falsification is the act of misrepresenting one's true wants under perceived social pressures, which can lead to significant societal consequences when applied to political preferences.

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What if everything we are taught in economics 101 is not only wrong, but may even be setting us up for populism, dictatorship or revolution? On this episode of the Portal, Eric is joined by renegade Economist Professor Timur Kuran whose theory of Preference Falsification appears to explain the world wide surge towards populism, and is now threatening to rewrite the core tenets of modern economics. This could well be the most important economist you’ve never heard of.

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