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Help Me Today, I’ll Help You Tomorrow
In the course of our lives, we come across countless opportunities to help others. The occasional homeless person or charity asks for a donation, or the Red Cross is collecting blood across the street….
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / JUNE 24 2011
Do Libraries Give Us the Freedom to Steal?
I am interested in the morally ambiguous realm of music/video/book piracy, a place where everyone has something to say and no qualms about saying it. A couple weeks ago, over a chocolate croissant, I…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / JUNE 10 2011
The Behavioral Economics of Eating Animals
Throughout my life, I have loved eating meat, but my two best friends at Duke are vegetarians, and because of them I was persuaded to read Eating Animals by one of my favorite contemporary authors,…
Behavioral Economics & Psychology / MAY 27 2011
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Cheat Codes: Calling all Artists
Artists from around the world are invited to attend a discussion about behavioral economics, dishonesty and cheating at the Center for Advanced Hindsight on October 25 at 7:30 PM EST. (Artists who do not…
Partisans Don’t Know How the Middle Feels
Ten minutes into the Presidential debate, my democratic friends were sure it was a failure. They tweeted, “Nothing he is saying is making me feel anything.” A lot of Democrats have walked away from…
Part 2: The Amorality of Drunk Driving
I want to share with you what appears to me like one of the most ill-advised anti-Drunk Driving campaigns ever created. Ironically, I was walking across the Duke quad on my way to the…