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Proxy Voting 101

…proxy voting process to deliver these nudges and give the shareholders a say. Here’s how it works in theory: companies assemble proxy ballots and distribute them to shareholders. Shareholders cast…

TEEN UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE MINIMUM WAGE

…out that the available data completely contradicts the theory that the minimum wage causes weaker employment. Moreover, the more data that becomes avilable, the more it condraticts standard textbook theory….

New Year’s Tax Resolutions

…how the lives of others can be strongly affected by one’s own actions. Proponents of so-called ‘Rational Choice Theory’ (first proposed in economics and then enthusiastically adopted by a number…

Megan McArdle Knows Galileo Was Waaay Over-rated

…while he didn’t have a mechanism, the prevailing, er, theory at the time had one. And proponents of that mechanism felt that Galileo’s theory, based on observation, contradicted their mechanism,…