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To Wall Street, There’s No Crisis Like a Banking Crisis
Tyler Muir finds that neither war nor deep recession darkens investor sentiment like sudden turmoil in the financial system
To Spot Fake Online Reviews, Target the Reviewers
A test was 93% accurate; more efficient than analyzing reviews
Time: How We Manage It, Value It and Relate to Its Passage
A compilation of research offers a compelling cheat sheet for how to get more out of time
Time Management for Startups: Entrepreneurs Act as if Future Hours Aren’t Worth Much
Research adapts big-company operational knowledge to smaller organizations
Through the Minimum Wage Looking Glass: Economic Consensus Unrealized
Researchers struggle with faulty study designs, flyspecking each other’s work, re-arguing decades of debate about jobs and income
Those Offering Opinions Are Better Remembered Than Those Uttering Facts
And recall of the source affects how we interpret information — and how we might act upon it
Thinking Small Could Deliver Bigger Retirement Success for Gig Workers
Daily, weekly and monthly contribution schemes gauge behavior
Thinking in Days, Weeks, Years — Rather Than Minutes — Can Bring Contentment
A broader view of one’s time also changes how one spends it
Think Your Job Is Safe From Robots?
Automation depresses career pay for many workers, notably including those in industries not automating
The Upshot of Some Banks Paying Higher Rates on Deposits
Also: the kind of companies at which more women advance; reaching the UN’s goals for a better world
The Unhappy Quest for a Happiness Index
Pushing aside GDP for a measure of human well-being turns out to be very, very difficult. Ask Dan Benjamin
The Transformative Potential of Financial Reparations
Payouts to victims of Colombia’s decadeslong armed conflict suggest benefits may exceed the initial cost
The Surprising Relationship Between Empathic Skill — the Ability to Read Others’ Feelings — and One’s Own Happiness
A surer path to contentedness might be believing one possesses empathy, even if one doesn’t
The Surprising Power of Giving Up Choice Control
Abdicating a decision to someone else is viewed as an act of generosity that is handsomely rewarded