Browsing: behavioral economics
Americans are as unhappy as ever. Could ‘a happiness-segregated society by marriage’ be why?
For nearly 50 years, one number barely moved. Every year or two, the General Social Survey asks Americans how happy…
The Gilded Age economist Thorstein Veblen famously wrote about “conspicuous consumption,” the idea that people signal status by buying expensive,…
Nearly half of young adults live at home and nearly half get help paying the bills, Fed survey shows
A new Federal Reserve survey offers a somber look at how young Americans are getting by: a lot with their…
American taxpayers have spent $33 billion on sports stadiums. They got fewer seats—and higher prices
When the Buffalo Bills open their $2.2 billion Highmark Stadium this September, they’ll be opening the NFL’s smallest venue: 60,108…
Joseph Stiglitz warns AI’s hunger for internet comments could degrade our ‘information ecosystem’
AI won’t just reshape work and markets, Joseph Stiglitz says it will quietly rot the information those systems depend on.…
AI will hurt the economy before it helps it. Here’s what comes after, according to Joseph Stieglitz
Joseph Stiglitz wants you to hold two ideas in your head at the same time. The first: an AI bubble…
I attended an all-boys Catholic high school. My wife, her mother, her father and much of her extended family are…
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The latest Mirror, Mirror 2024 report from the Commonwealth Fund—a nonprofit organization that conducts independent research on global healthcare issues—…
We reviewed 1,200 studies to understand how childhood shapes the leaders we are today. Here’s what we found
Today, most of us spent our day on autopilot, moving from meeting to meeting with little or no time to…












