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The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction
Newsweek: Like many colleges, Washington University in St. Louis offers children of its faculty free tuition. So Leonard Green, a professor of psychology there, did all he could to persuade his daughter to choose the
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Bonus tötet Arbeitsfreude
Süddeutsche Zeitung: Staaten sind von der Pleite bedroht, Banken stehen nach nur drei Jahren vor der nächsten Rettungsaktion durch die resignierenden Steuerzahler – aber die Boni fließen weiterhin, vor allem die für Banker, die mit
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Lucky Towns
Men’s Health Magazine: Luck is like that dark matter stuff scientists have spent billions of dollars trying to find with the Large Hadron Collider—a powerful presence that people surmise exists but no one has actually
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5 Facts About the Wealthiest 1 Percent
LiveScience: Protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement, which began in New York City’s financial district and has since spread to hundreds of cities around the country, call themselves “the 99 percent”: They say they’re
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Fact Checker: Is the U.S. a land of Haves and Have-Nots?
Reno Gazette-Journal: The claim America is increasingly becoming a land of Haves and Have-Nots. The background What do you think is a fair amount of wealth inequality? Before getting to that, an explanation of “why
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Dan Ariely: How to Pay People
Bloomberg Businessweek: Most of the time, when you hire people you don’t want to specify exactly what they are to do and how much they would get paid—you don’t want to say if you do