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August 15, 2014
Weekly Economic News Roundup and measuring happiness
August 15, 2014
How Music Can Empower You

Like athletes use music before competing, so too can we energize our human capital at work with music that empowers us physiologically and psychologically.

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August 11, 2014
weekly economic roundup and pension income systems
August 11, 2014
Will You Get Your Social Security Benefits?

The 2014 Social Security Trustees Report says that after we deplete the remains of the program's trust funds in 2033, payroll taxes will not provide all promised benefits.

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August 5, 2014
multigenerational Individual wealth
August 5, 2014
Seeding change: seeds or change?

Cash grants are an alternative form of foreign aid. Tough to accept, cash could have more benefits than other traditional programs.

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July 7, 2014
Indian development and tradeoffs from roads and cars
July 7, 2014
The Difference Between India's Stories and Statistics

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June 14, 2014
Sunk cost and opportunity cost explain the low quit rate during the great recession.
June 14, 2014
One Reason to Quit A Job

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June 12, 2014
stock market activity and World Cup
June 12, 2014
The Impact of World Cup Soccer On Stock Markets

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June 11, 2014
Prius Purchases Could Reflect Conforming to a Local Social Norm
June 11, 2014
Prius Purchases and Conspicuous Conservation

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May 27, 2014
In the major sports leagues and for golf, there is a top 1% and income inequality that can be measured with Gini Coefficients.
May 27, 2014
The Income Inequality That Doesn't Bother Us

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May 21, 2014
Cost and benefit balance change for dealing with global warming if it creates a national security threat.
May 21, 2014
An Unexpected Cost of Climate Change?

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May 20, 2014
Technological innovation might have slowed but we could be due for a spurt.
May 20, 2014
Production Possibility Frontiers: Entering (and Exiting) a Discovery Void

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May 15, 2014
Experience of a babysitting co-op with scrip provides a monetary policy lesson and a debate
May 15, 2014
The Monetary Policy Mistakes of a Babysitting Co-op

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May 14, 2014
The externalities created by attempts at energy efficiency can be positive or negative.
May 14, 2014
Energy Efficiency Surprises

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