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What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often?

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 4 Arts and letters 8 Politics and public life 3 Business and finance 6 Technology 7 Sport 4
Read by age Any age Before thirty 1 In their thirties 6 In their forties 4 In their fifties 8 In their sixties 4 Seventy and beyond 5
Elinor Ostrom Political economist; laureate of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, 2009
Yes, but not with a formula. So there are many, many efforts now to decentralize and they create a rigid formula and give people rules from on top and say, 'Now it's yours.' And that isn't worked very well either. … And, you think about the variety. If you look at a countryside, think of the variety out there in terms of the ecological variety. Well, if people are going to manage ecological variety, no single set of rules will work in a semi-arid versus a tropical-wet region. They have to be different.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview recorded immediately after the prize announcement, Nobel Prize Outreach, 12 October 2009 source ↗

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