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The history of mobility according to Sempé (thread). Phase 1
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Phase 5. Note that this cartoon is from 1962, and already foresaw that, in the city, bicycles would end up being faster than cars.

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In "Nudge", @R_Thaler and @CassSunstein often argue that neoclassical economics assumes that humans behave as if they're Mr Spock, while, in reality, we behave more like Homer Simpson. There's an implicit assumption in this analogy that Mr Spock is the normative reference/
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