Source: Brownstone Institute
by Jeffrey A Tucker
“Tech entrepreneur Marc Andreessen posted the following: ‘We are living through the most dramatic preference cascade of my life. Every day I am hearing the most amazing things.’ What an unusual phrase, I thought, so I looked it up. It comes from a book written 30 years ago: Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification, by Duke University economist Timur Kuran. I downloaded and read it. It’s brilliant. It seems to explain everything. Maybe it explains too much. Regardless, Kuran has given us a language to describe a remarkable feature of our times.” (12/18/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/preference-falsification-and-cascade/