“If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” American psychologist Abraham Maslow proclaimed in 1966.
The concept refers to the cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. In the public sphere, the concept is known as regulatory capture –
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