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Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Economics. Show all posts
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Beyond the backlash: What evidence shows about the economic impact of DEI

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Coates, R. (2025). The Conversation The article is here. Few issues in the U.S. today are as controversial as diversity, equity and inclusio...
Sunday, January 7, 2024

The power of social influence: A replication and extension of the Asch experiment

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Franzen A, Mader S (2023) PLoS ONE 18(11): e0294325. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0294325 Abstract In this paper, we pursue four go...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Violence against women at work

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Adams-Prassl, A., Huttunen, K., Nix, E.,  & Zhang, N. (2022). University of Oxford. Working Paper Abstract Between-colleague conflicts a...
Monday, March 29, 2021

The problem with prediction

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Joseph Fridman aeon.com Originally published 25 Jan 21 Here is an excerpt: Today, many neuroscientists exploring the predictive brain deploy...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

The economics of faith: using an apocalyptic prophecy to elicit religious beliefs in the field

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Augenblick, N., Cunha, J. M., Dal Bo, E. and Rao, J. M. Journal of Public Economics Volume 141, September 2016, Pages 38-49 Abstract ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020

'A coronavirus depression could be the great leveller'

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Kyrill Hartog The Guardian Originally published 30 April 2020 Here is an excerpt: So could the pandemic of our era, already considered...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

Virus lays bare the frailty of the social contract

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Editorial Board Financial Times Originally published 3 April 20 If there is a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is that it has ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The Morality of Taking From the Rich and Giving to the Poor

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Noah Smith Bloomberg Originally posted 11 Feb 20 Here is an excerpt: Instead, economists can help by trying to translate people’s pref...
Monday, August 12, 2019

Why it now pays for businesses to put ethics before economics

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John Drummond The National Originally published July 14, 2019 Here is an excerpt: All major companies today have an ethics code or a s...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Nike, Kaepernick and the morality of capitalism

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Steve Chapman The Chicago Tribune Originally posted September 5, 2018 Here is an excerpt: The Republican Party has a large complemen...
Monday, October 30, 2017

Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to American Richard Thaler

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David Gauthier-Villars in Stockholm and Ben Leubsdorf in Washington The Wall Street Journal Originally posted October 9, 2017 Here are t...
Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Economics: Society Cannot Function Without Moral Bonds

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Geoffrey Hodgson Evonomics Originally posted June 29, 2016 Here is an excerpt: When mainstream economists began to question that indiv...
Thursday, September 7, 2017

Harm to self outweighs benefit to others in moral decision making

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Lukas J. Volz, B. Locke Welborn, Matthias S. Gobel, Michael S. Gazzaniga, and Scott T. Grafton PNAS 2017 ; published ahead of print July 1...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Yuval Harari on why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years

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Interview by Ezra Klein Vox.com Originally posted March 27, 2017 Here are two excerpts: I totally agree that for success, cooperation ...
Monday, March 14, 2016

Third-party punishment as a costly signal of trustworthiness

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Jillian J. Jordan, Moshe Hoffman, Paul Bloom & David G. Rand Nature Originally published February 25, 2016 Third-party punishment (T...
Sunday, December 29, 2013

Economics should incorporate ethical considerations

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By Sean Sinclair The Lancet, Volume 382, Issue 9909 , Pages 1978 - 1979, 14 December 2013 doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(13)62651-3 In support o...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Ethical dilemmas surround those willing to sell, buy kidneys on black market

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By Michelle Castillo CBS News Originally published November 1, 2013 There's no denying that there is a shortage of organ donatio...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Does Studying Economics Breed Greed?

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By Adam Grant Author of Give and Take LinkedIn article Published October 21, 2013 In 1776, Adam Smith famously wrote: “It is not from...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Economics as a moral science

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by INGRID ROBEYNS on OCTOBER 31, 2013 The Crooked Timber Here are some excerpts: Why is it relevant now? In the lively discussion on wh...