Book Draft: “Making Good Decisions” – Volume 2 – Part II – Glossary Entry: Carlo Cipolla
Readers can scan the following summary if they do not have the time to read the two-page pdf linked below.
Book Draft: “Making Good Decisions” - Volume 2: Part II – Glossary Entry: Carlo Cipolla - Intellectually curious economic historian of the pre-industrial age of European expansion (1000 – 1700) who wrote 21 books, some of which translated in as many as 13 languages. The enhanced Cipolla-chart developed in Volume 1 of this book connects his insights about human behavior with experimenters such as Rodolfo Llinás as well as researchers from the Logic & Statistics Program such as R. A. Fisher, Jerzy Neyman & Egon S. Pearson, the Heuristics & Bias Program such as Amos Tversky & Daniel Kahneman, the “Fast & Frugal” Heuristics Program such as Herbert Simon & Gerd Gigerenzer, and researchers associated with Repair Programs such as AI/ML, Big Data, Ergodicity Economics, the Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) & Counterfactuals of the Causal Revolution. Cipolla became better known for his short essay about the “Five Laws of Human Stupidity”, first written in jest for family & friends, than his scholarly books. This shows that humor, a self-reflective art form, helps science touch the heart of the matter. This connects Cipolla to Hannah Arendt, James P. Carse & Marshall McLuhan. Art & artists reveal the otherwise invisible presence of the “Media” filters that stand in the way of making authentic decisions. Humor pierces the veil of propaganda, to reveal the concealed, simulated, or forgotten.
“CTRI by Francois Gadenne” writes a business book in three volumes, published serially on Substack at the pace of two pages per day, for public peer-review. The book connects the dots of life-enhancing practices for the next generation, free of controlling algorithms, based on the lifetime experience of a retirement age entrepreneur, and continuously updated with insights from reading Wealth, Health, and Statistics research papers on behalf of large companies as the co-founder of CTRI.