Dispersed, cooperative knowledge works in economics as it does in evolutionary biology, to accelerate advancement of the human species.

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Where there is knowledge, it is often kept within departmental "silos" or is too widely dispersed.

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It is not even that there are good reasons to believe that sulphur dioxide dispersed in the stratosphere could drastically disrupt rainfall patterns in ways that could no better be modelled with existing knowledge than next month's cloud cover.

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