1.0 link 129042 <![CDATA[Slow Down and Get This Right]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-kuttner/slow-down-and-get-this-ri_b_129042.html Physicists, historians, and economists talk about "path dependence." Something that is far from ideal persists, only because we are stuck with a particular path. A favorite example is the QWERTY typewriter -- it is far less efficient than other arrangements of letters, but we all learned on it and are too lazy to change. Another is employer-provided health insurance. No reasonable person would design such a system for today's economy, but we're stuck with a whole infrastructure that resists reform.

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