Sublime

the behavior of online users is surprisingly difficult to predict because it involves a confluence of disciplines, including, but not limited to, psychology, sociology, and economics.

often by trying to change the incentives that Doers face.

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

The chronic stress that accompanies poverty can be detected at the cellular level. One study found that up to 5,500 premature deaths that occurred in New York City from 2008 to 2012 could have been prevented if the city’s minimum wage had been $15 an hour during that time, instead of just over $7. A higher minimum wage is an antidepressant. It is a

The government released a list of more than thirteen thousand past and present Madoff account holders, ranging from hundreds of not very rich Florida retirees to celebrities, billionaires, and nonprofits such as charities and universities. If these legions of investors were easily gulled, often for decades, what does this swindle (and others) say a

“They have hired astronomers; they have hired mathematicians; they have hired physicists; they have even hired theologists. They never even interviewed an economist.”