the long view

• Dan Farber
• February 22, 2011

Counting the Time (A Whimsical Thought Experiment)

Our economic and political institutions press us to take the short view.  So does our culture: our calendars go out only one year.  Would our psychology of time change if we adopted another measure? As a thought experiment, imagine changing the basic unit from a year to millenium, which we could abbreviate as  an M …

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