If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita citizendictatorshipgroup Change image and share on social
There is an interesting interplay between power corrupting and corruption empowering. The causality does not go one way. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita causalitycorruptcorruption Change image and share on social
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita aggrandizedifferencedowntrodden share on social
We probably could more successfully resolve the North Korean nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. We could successfully resolve what American leaders seem to perceive as an Iranian nuclear threat through game-theoretic reasoning. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita americangameiranian share on social
