[godojo]

Sounds like pretty basic observation of society, as in people are driven by: 1. What what they can do -- the tools. 2. What others do. 3. Costs / benefits. 4. What hurts -- laws and consequences of not following the law.

I wouldn't be surprised students of sociology would have better models to describe this.

[brodouevencode]

There probably is. And this book is a little relatively old. If you read the book though, many of the solutions/policies proposed were considered an abhorration in 2006 and are still not so palatable even today. I fear he'll eventually get his way.

[kelseyfrog]

They do. One of the most powerful behavior-modulating mechanisms is reality building. Think of the folks who self-censor imagination because Truth/Reality/Nature align with their views. "That's just how things are" is more powerful than laws, norms, or costs. In fact the acceptance of laws norms and costs as legitimate rest firmly on legal realism, social realism, and economic realism - all flavors of the same substrate.