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Pure Pedantry
(1) | | One of the most interesting aspects of human behavior is our nearly infinite capacity to arrange and coordinate symbols. Think of the symbols that permeate our existence. Paper money has no value... | |
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Pure Pedantry
(1) | | Nature News is reporting on a paper that just came out in PNAS. The paper, Coates and Herbert, correlates the daily profits and trading volatility of traders in London. They argue that changes in... | |
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Pure Pedantry
(1) | | Greg Mankiw linked to this article in the Washington Post by experimental philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah. Appiah points out that whether you think a tax system is equitable is determined partly by... | |
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Mispricing
(2) | | A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles — sex. When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely... | |
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(2) | | Scientists think the new field of neuroeconomics can explain some business behavior, perhaps even distinguish rational from irrational decisions. Are some people's brains hardwired to run companies... | |
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Pure Pedantry
(1) | | A lot of people on ScienceBlogs are talking about this paper, Hockings et al., which shows that male chimps will trade food for sex. The food in this case is papayas stolen from nearby farms;... | |
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Mispricing
(2) | | RESTAURANTS charging inflated prices for wine could be doing their customers a favour. A study has found that people who pay more for a product do enjoy it more.The researchers discovered that people... | |
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(2) | | Why do smart people make stupid financial choices—and how can they avoid repeating them? Having a head for investing, it turns out, isn't about doing arithmetic on napkins or studying spreadsheets.... | |
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