The university that you're in is a miniature super organism. It needs funding and more students to pay for the deputy dean of academic affairs, sportsand everything else. So do you have any insight on how the things that you would like to see in the next 50 years could come about? i'm at a landgrant university. The idea behind land grant universities was,. if you read adam smith, you know he says, patents are horrible to the antithesis of free markets. They are obized for cliqus, which leads to profits. But you could change the algorithms towards pro socialnd.
On this episode we meet with ecological economist and Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration, Josh Farley.
Farley explores the importance of human cooperation in a modern superstructure that incentivizes competition. What role will cooperation play in helping us solve our largest existential problems?
Farley explains the critical social dilemma humans face: How can we grapple with the paradox that individuals are better served to act selfishly, but cooperation among individuals makes everyone better off?
Additionally, Professor Farley helps us distinguish the difference between how a system works, and how we can understand and participate in changing a system.
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