Episode IX.09 - The Tyranny of Optimization

from The Western Traditions Podcast · host Robert Paxton

How the process of optimization ultimately ruins everything. Beginning with examples from Mexican politics and President Gustavo Diaz, the podcast goes on to consider business, sports, diet, religion, marriage and technology as well as the US health care system. Finally, the episode closes with Dr. Richard Feynman's elaboration on the theory of entropy.

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