Reading Arrow is one of the things that warmed me up to the European School (Roy et al). Try to avoid policies that create big losers, instead of trying to opt

Reading Arrow is one of the things that warmed me up to the European School (Roy et al). Try to avoid policies that create big losers, instead of trying to optimize a national utility function. It's also really interesting that in the 1970s the Soviets were trying to do the latter -- it's one of the things they wanted to do with their crazy mirror-universe arpanet.