The paper investigates how ex-ante uncertainty about a government policy with redistributive consequences will influence the proportion of agents in favor of it, if agents can trade policy contingent securities. If a subset of agents can insure against policy uncertainty, support for redistributive policies is always smaller than in a case where no insurance is available. Both the relation betw...

About the author. . . . Frederick Engels (1820-1895), as the son of a German textile manufacturer who owned factories in England, became so concerned about fate of textile workers he published The Condition of the Working Classes in England. He saw the textile worker as a new societal force leading to a rational ordering of social life, superseding capitalism. In collaboration with Karl Marx, E...

This study investigated mind wandering during video lectures in an online course. Working memory capacity and interest were also considered. Higher mind wandering predicted lower performance. Lower working memory capacity predicted higher mind wandering. Higher interest predicted lesser mind wandering. Social media and technology accounted for 29% of off-task thinking.