5 incentives and rules that work to their advantage

Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1984).

6 "weapons of reason which today arm you against the present"

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (New York: Penguin, 1964), p. 106. Marcus Aurelius was praised by historians of the Roman empire, including Niccol Machiavelli and Edward Gibbon.

BY AL GORE.

The Future.

The a.s.sault on Reason.

An Inconvenient Truth An Inconvenient Truth: Adapted for a New Generation.

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family (with Tipper Gore).

The Spirit of Family (with Tipper Gore).

Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis Our Purpose.

From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less Common Sense Government.

Businesslike Government: Lessons Learned from America"s Best Companies.

(ill.u.s.trated by Scott Adams).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Former vice president AL GORE is co-founder and chairman of both Generation Investment Management and Current TV. He is also a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and a member of Apple Inc."s board of directors. Gore spends the majority of his time as chairman of the Climate Reality Project, a non-profit devoted to solving the climate crisis. Gore was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives four times and to the U.S. Senate twice. He served eight years as vice president. He auth.o.r.ed the bestsellers Earth in the Balance, An Inconvenient Truth, The a.s.sault on Reason, and Our Choice. He is a co-recipient of the 2007 n.o.bel Peace Prize.

www.algore.com.

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