Materially False: A Q&A with Tim Kasser about the Pursuit of the Good Life through Goods
As Madonna astutely noted in her 1984 song, we live in a material world.
September 09th, 2014
money
August 04th, 2014
The Rejected Student Who Didn’t Complain
Consider the following two types of Ivy League admissions programs designed to grant special access to students: Affirmative action and legacy admissions.
November 14th, 2013
Textbook of the Future?
College education is too expensive, and textbooks are part of the problem. This is the thinking that motivated two psychologists to create an online platform to provide up-to-date, fully-customizable text books, for free.
October 03rd, 2013
Can Government Help Citizens Spend “Happy Money”?
There’s a puzzle that’s plagued psychologists, economists, and policy makers for decades.
September 12th, 2013
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
In this exclusive excerpt of their new book Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir explore the concept of scarcity: its ubiquity, its challenges, and its silver lining.
