Blog by Sandbox Team

Welcome to our weekly #sandboxsummary - In these articles we give you some highlights from the weekend’s sessions.

This week’s topic was wisdom - What does it mean to be wise? Is it a character trait, a skill, a possession? Is wisdom amoral? Is it earned or learned? Can you be a wise hypocrite, or a ...

10-07-2020 04:03 PM - Comment(s)

Pareto efficiency refers to a situation where no party (individual or preference criterion) can be made better off without making at least one other party worse off. A Pareto efficient outcome is an action which helps at least one person while harming no one. For instance, suppose you and I are eati...

07-27-2020 06:18 PM - Comment(s)
Intertextuality

Intertextuality refers to the shaping of an audience's interpretation of a text's meaning by another text. When we use the interconnection between similar or related texts to interpret meaning, we do so through intertextuality. For instance, when Arnold Schwarzenegger says "I'll be back" a...

06-16-2020 05:05 PM - Comment(s)