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Some light reading to fill your infinite free time.
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"I've now reached the point at which I simply don't believe people when they say that lower pay for bankers will result in worse performance -- especially since it looks very much as though it was higher pay for bankers which was at least partly responsible for much of the present crisis. Let's bring down pay, a lot, and see whether performance really falls."
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A novel theory that we might try in a few years.
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Mostly of interest to humanities types, but you can't have too many posts on good research advice.
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A wide-ranging and very entertaining Thanksgiving edition of bloggingheads with Joel Achenbach and Robert Wright.
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