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08.19.2009 7:15 pm

Professor says “star” system hurts banking

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

How health insurance can be fattening

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

It really is the thought that counts

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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