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Michels
Iron Law of Oligarchy - all top-down organizations are run by the same type of people
Pareto
80-20 rule. This is the natural order and all societal descriptions will revert to it over time.
Nietcshe
Will to power - The same kind of people will conquer other people
Mosca
Sheep - people are sheep and want to follow leaders
Weber
Bureaucracy - people are followers and therefore bureaucracy is necessary and convenient
Parsons
Social Homeostasis - there are automatic adjustment mechanisms that allow behavior to adapt. When disaster strikes people will rebound.
The straight line over time
Zeno
Straight line - constant condition over time despite shocks
Heraclites
Erratic line - Society is affected by shock
Pavlov
Conditioning - Ring bell at meal time
Ariely
"Framing" and not rationality will affect decisions
Levitt
Rationality - People's behavior is a response to rationality
Coase
Coase's Theorem - a firm will exist only if it reduces transaction costs
Maslow
Maslow's Heirarchy - pyramid
1. Nirvana (self-actualization)
2. Humanitarianism
3. Love, Respect
4. Security
5. Food, shelter, clothing
Plato
Philosopher's King - there is a strata of society best fit to lead
Galton
Eugenics - children won't be as smart as two parents. Purifying genome
Skinner
Reinforcement - mouse in the box that hit knob and got shocked
Meade
Nurture
Dawkins
Selfish gene, sociobiology - our point of earth is to survive
McFadden
Bounded - only self interested and rational to a point. Implies that utility is affected by that of others
Freud
Subconscious - sex. Behaviors originat in the depths of mind and from childhood
Boas
Nurture - Meade's teacher
La Place
La Place's Demon - there is a man who knows everything and is able to predict future and read past because of perfect laws of physics. Determinist
Heisenberg
Uncertainty principal - can only know speed OR location
Menger
Determinism
Medieval Church
do God's will