Why I Make Terrible Decisions, or, poverty thoughts.
This is an excellent piece by KillerMartinis she should teach economics and this will be required reading in all my classes from now on!
It was just forwarded to me by Corey Carroll.
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Prisoners are less selfish than students: “They Finally Tested The ‘Prisoner’s Dilemma’ On Actual Prisoners — And The Results Were Not What You Would Expect” (Business Insider Australia)
Posted: 2013/07/24 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in Links/Articles/VideoTags: altruism, behavior, cooperative, game theory, microeconomics, Prisoner's dilemma, selfish
Probably for the same reason poor people are less selfish than rich people (there’s ample evidence for this): the harder one’s life, the more one understands that we depend on each other and that human success is predicated on being able to cooperate.
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Jose Galvez mentioned this article on the show just now
Posted: 2013/05/06 by Punkonomics (@dearbalak) in UncategorizedTags: behavior, conspiracy, denial, rationality, Scientific American
Jose Galvez mentioned this article on the show just now
I’ll read it later after grading senior paper and re-post it with the podcast tomorrow.
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