08.19.2009 7:15 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Any politician worth his or her salt can attack Wall Street’s super-sized bonuses on fairness grounds. They’re bad because greedy bankers laid the economy to waste, they’re undeserved because taxpayers just bailed out the banks, and so on.
It’s a much…

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07.21.2009 4:52 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Obesity is generally blamed on both genetics and behavior. Economists, though, like to look at incentives, and a new National Bureau of Economic Research study suggests a strong link between obesity, which we tend to think of as a bad…

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02.03.2009 5:27 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you’re a cheapskate like my colleague Jim Gallagher, you’ll be cheered by this recent research on gift-giving from Stanford University’s graduate school of business. After doing several studies, the researchers concluded that recipients don’t appreciate an expensive gift much…

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