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Two's company, three is complexity

Research finds genes may hold the keys to how humans learn and that genes exert influence on people's behavior in a very common experimental economic game. An essay on the behavioral logic of collective action: Partisans cooperate and punish more than non-partisans. A review of Rationality and the Ideology of Disconnection by Michael Taylor. The introduction to Equilibrium and Rationality: Game Theory Revised by Decision Rules by Paul Weirich. A review of Two’s Company, Three is Complexity by Neil Johnson and Simplexity: The Simple Rules of a Complex World by Jeffrey Kluger. From Economic Principals, a review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb's The Black Swan (and more). An interview with Michael J. Mauboussin, author of More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places