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title: "Stanford — BA Political Science"
role: "BA Political Science"
startDate: 2007
endDate: 2011
url: https://dazuck.com/work/stanford
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# Stanford — BA Political Science

The starting chapter of the through-line: how non-kin coordinate at scale without centralized coercion. Sports teams, political institutions, classrooms — three lenses on the same question.

The economics-to-political-science pivot is the first instance of a recurring move: leave models that open with bad assumptions about humans.

The top-shelf reading list (Caro, Kahneman, Haidt, Bloom, Beck/Cowan) is the long-form continuation of this Stanford lens.

_Stanford → Bain: I didn't know what I wanted to do. Bain looked like a good place to learn._

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