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From Dan Ariely’s Coursera course on Behavioral Economics: Poverty increases opportunity cost to every decision. When you are poor, every decision you make is a tradeoff between what you decide to do, and what you could have done instead. If you do X, you can’t afford to do Y. That makes sense, but every rational […]

Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes

Why Can’t America Be Sweden? “Daron Acemoglu, an eminent economist at M.I.T., has ignited a firestorm by arguing that contemporary forces of globalization bar the United States from adopting the liberal social welfare policies of Scandinavian countries.”

Baseball Therapy: Why Sabermetricians Should Watch Their Language by Russell A. Carleton by (author unknown) Baseball Prospectus

College in Sweden is free but students still have a ton of debt. Students in Sweden are viewed as full adults, responsible for their own finances.

P.J. O’Rourke Quotes “Everybody wants to save the world but nobody wants to help mom with the dishes.”

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A Religion of Colorblind Policy by Ta-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates : The Atlantic

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