Silver: A morally good money

Good parents not money

P matter. That's the message of Susan Mayer's new book. What Money Can't Buy.^ The University of Ghicago sociologist's sophisticated and often ingenious analyses lead her to conclude that parents' characteristics are more important than their income in determining how well they raise their children and, hence, how well their children will do in later life. Thus Mayer argues that giving low-inco...

Money for Good Behaviour

Work being done with subnormal adolescents at Northgate and District Hospital arose as a part of the overall hospital policy?that a subnormality hospital should provide the facilities for the management and treatment of all problems affecting the subnormal and severely subnormal. Of course, this is an ideal which is not easily obtained, but we feel that it is one which we should try to achieve ...

Throwing Good Money After Bad∗

An “investment bubble” is a period of “excessive, and predictably unprofitable, investment”(DeMarzo, Kaniel and Kremer, 2007, p.737). Such bubbles most often accompany the arrival of some new technology, such as the tech stock boom and bust of the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. We provide a rational explanation for investment bubbles based on the dynamics of learning in highly uncertain environm...

Counterfactual thoughts and judgments about morally good actions

Evaluating the morality of an action is affected by thoughts about whether the outcome might have turned out differently. We report experimental results that show a moral action effect occurs for judgments about morally good actions. Participants read stories about a morally elevating situation, e.g., an agent is found to be a match as a bone-marrow donor for someone else. The agent decided to ...

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