Human intuitions about coordination are evolved for the concrete small group—the hunter-gatherer band our genes come from—which makes it cognitively difficult to fathom the vast, extensive concatenation of links and the mechanisms holding modern society together.

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Dan Klein

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our intuitions I think are more about the concrete the small group you know maybe the hunter-gatherer band which our genes come from they say and so we don't we have a hard time fathoming the this vast concatenation

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Dan Klein on Coordination and Cooperation 02/04/2008EconTalk
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