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By late 2017, Berkeley had replaced Oxford as the financial capital of effective altruism. One reason for this was that Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife, Cari Tuna, signaled their intent to give away most of their multibillion-dollar fortune to effective altruist causes—but there were others. Oxford was still the movement’s intellec
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
shape incentives
Andrew McAfee • More From Less
the amount we’re willing to pay for things often depends, to a large degree, on how fair the price appears to be.
Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Plenty of basic, sub-profound questions lurk in other minds, too.
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
Indeed, because of Super Crunching, firms sometimes may be able to make more accurate predictions about how you’ll behave than you could ever make yourself.
Ian Ayres • Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to Be Smart
One other oddly big thing happened to Sam at the beginning of his junior year. Completely out of the blue, a twenty-five-year-old lecturer in philosophy at Oxford University named Will Crouch* reached out and asked to meet with him. Sam never learned how the guy had found him—probably from the writing Sam had been doing on various utilitarian messa
... See moreMichael Lewis • Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon
Financial incentives are generally easy to spot, but nonfinancial incentives, like reputation or fairness, are less obvious yet still important in driving decisions.