The complexity we add to systems is a direct tax on those wi... - Sendhil Mullainathan

"The complexity we add to systems is a direct tax on those with the least capacity to pay it."

Sendhil Mullainathan Power

Economist Researcher Indian-American Born 1974 (age 52)

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