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When Do Humans Want to Share the Wealth?

…instincts aren’t invoked. This even when they’re wrong about the relative contribution of their individual efforts. So the winners are deluded about two things: 1. the relative contribution of their…

Wealth and Antisocial Behavior: Reverse Causality?

…is a constant background murmur in our society that says that greater wealth has to be a reward for more talent, more effort or more contribution to society. When Steve…

Economics and Bosses

…organizations? If you believe that premise, please explain: Why all those great managers of the late 1940s through the mid-1970s ran defined benefit contribution plans, but their successors—who supposedly are…

C+I+G+T

contribution each individual makes to their tax free account is what counts as savings as the returns on this portfolio do not count as savings. But if the objective is…