The social psychology revolution is reaching its tipping point


	The social psychology revolution is reaching its tipping point

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7-19-2008 6:37 AM

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7-20-2008 1:11 PM

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Important. When politicians start to think, there is some place for optimism...

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/03cca5e1-9b10-4884-8b2b-92649525c78d/BAA0AE02-6DD6-4C59-ADC2-716EDE72B105/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article4339756.ece" href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article4339756.ece" style="font-size: 11px;">www.timesonline.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article4339756.ece"><H2 class="sub-heading padding-top-5 padding-bottom-15">Go and look in your bookshop: new thinking is seeping into politics</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/daniel_finkelstein/article4339756.ece"><P>
It took a long time. Longer than it should have. But in the end, the penny
dropped.
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Back in the 1980s, Tony Blair, a junior Shadow minister, was sitting quietly
with his constituency agent, John Burton, when he suddenly exclaimed: “You
know, John, I understand it all. Finally, I've got it.” When Burton asked
him what he was talking about, Blair triumphantly replied: “Microeconomics!”
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I wonder whether in a couple of decades' time, our own fumbling first
acquaintance with new thinking will appear similarly amusing. For an
intellectual revolution is under way that will change the way we think about
public policy just as the free market economists did in the 1980s. I wonder
whether one day soon a future party leader will turn round to his agent and
say: “Finally, I've got it! Human behaviour.”
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