Sublime

Michael Norton, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of the book Happy Money,

Kahneman et al. presented 867 jury-eligible subjects with descriptions of legal cases (e.g., a child whose clothes caught on fire) and asked them to either Rate the outrageousness of the defendant’s actions, on a bounded scale, Rate the degree to which the defendant should be punished, on a bounded scale, or Assign a dollar value to punitive

The general theme of these findings is that the idea of money primes individualism: a reluctance to be involved with others, to depend on others, or to accept demands from others. The psychologist who has done this remarkable research, Kathleen Vohs, has been laudably restrained in discussing the implications of her findings, leaving the task to

George Loewenstein era un buen ejemplo. Economista cualificado y desilusionado con la esterilidad psicológica de los modelos económicos, leyó la obra de Amos y Danny y pensó: un momento, ¡a lo mejor quiero ser psicólogo! Como resultó que era el biznieto de Sigmund Freud fue un pensamiento aún más complejo de lo que cabía esperar.