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NSF Seeks New Director for Behavioral and Social Science Programs
The National Science Foundation’s is initiating a national search for the Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE), Myron Gutmann has served in this position, with distinction, since November 2009. The Assistant Director
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Behavioral economics taps power of persuasion for tax compliance
Chicago Tribune: Can peer pressure make delinquent taxpayers pony up what they owe the government? Behavioral economists say it can, and some tax agencies in both the United States and Britain are taking their advice
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Millions on Pet Halloween Costumes? Why We Spend More and More on Pets
TIME: American consumers are expected to collectively spend $370 million on pet costumes this Halloween. That’s $70 million more than last year, and a whopping 40% increase compared to 2010. And how’s this for perspective
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The Retirement Game
Retirement is an odd notion when you think of it, and a modern one in the scheme of human history. For our ancestors, the idea that you had earned enough money for one lifetime, that
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Wealth equity? We all want it
Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel: New York Times’ reporter Jeff Zeleney recently wrote that Mitt Romney and his allies were lacerating President Barack Obama as determined to expand government until the United States resembles Sweden. Think Paul
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How Americans view wealth and inequality
BBC Business: There have been lots of questions and discussions recently about inequality and economists often argue about what is the right level of inequality to have in society. But Mike Norton, professor at Harvard
