Of course the natural response to the positive role of traders is that when they deemed Wall Street firms themselves unworthy of further investment, why didn't we let them fail?
Too often wefail to question whywe accept an invitation to meet with someone for coffee or lunch, not thinking through the possible result of the meeting nor even having a goal in mind for it.
Let me use an example to illustrate why many of our solutions to social problems fail because we overlook that we are facing an entrepreneurial problem.
We've tried to understand how bullying can be a form of what researchers call "social combat, " and we've looked at what programs work to prevent it, and why some schools fail to adequately address the problem.