Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Trust, but verify.

"She [Suzanne Massey] also asked Reagan to learn the now famous Russian phrase 'doveryai, no proveryai', which means 'Trust, but verify' "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Massie

Then you can work toward beating the tragedy of the commons, which requires trust before people can collaborate.

http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/97605/conatrem/conatrem/documents/Ostrom-Ppt.pdf

I met the son of Suzanne Massey at a recent conference. In reading up about her son on Wikipedia, Bob Massey I found that his mother had a role in U.S. diplomatic relations between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev during the cold war.

(Ironically, I need to verify where the above claims really came from beyond taking wikipedia's list of books and interviews for granted...)

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