dollarglis

How about on your coffee table? Like this

Supply and command, boys

Try beer. It helps.

Dude I should get one too, then.

Hi David, one of the things I love most about The Wire is its message that poorly designed institutions, bad incentives and inefficiencies at the group level can lead even a bunch of basically good people to cause terrible human suffering. (In other words, groups can be really shitty even when the individuals in them are no worse than any of the rest of us.) Do you think this kind of institutional inefficiency is unavoidable (rules will always be gamed, people will always be motivated by incentives, etc.), or are you optimistic about our ability to design better and smarter institutions that avoid the worst kinds of harms? Any general words of wisdom for designing better institutions? (Sorry for the abstract Q--just want to absorb all your knowledge.)