The Morgan Housel Podcast

Accountable to Darwin vs. Accountable to Newton

03.18.2024 - By Morgan HouselPlay

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Woodrow Wilson was the only president with a Ph.D. in political science.He came to office having thought more about how a government functions than most before him or since.One of his complaints was that too many people in government held the belief that it was a Big Machine: that once you set up a series of rules you could take your hands off the wheel and let the government run on its own forever. They viewed government like physics, with a set of customs and laws that required no updating ...

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