Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk have found evidence that people will do pretty much anything for money – even die for it. They tell us all about it in a study called Dying to Save Taxes.
Economists like to believe that people make rational decisions and base all their actions on cool self-interest. In the backs of their minds, though, they wonder….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.
Posted by Marc Abrahams on
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 am
under Newspaper column.
