
Winter 2016
In this issue, we explore the price of tax evasion, minimizing portfolio risk, and how to convince teens to eat healthy foods.
In this issue, we explore the price of tax evasion, minimizing portfolio risk, and how to convince teens to eat healthy foods.
The best approach to minimizing portfolio risk may be counterintuitive.
Why Investors Should Buy More of That Risky StockLogic alone provides ample cause to be skeptical of constraints on trade and immigration.
Five Logical Arguments against the Protectionist FallacyRising taxes and spending in one state can have substantial negative effects on people in neighboring states.
US States’ Tax-and-Spend Policies Hurt Their NeighborsTo survive opening stumbles, entrepreneurs need an objective measurement around which their business-plan numbers revolve.
The Power of Your Pivot PointIf you’re married, keeping your spouse happy may have a selfish benefit: it will boost your own health.
Keeping Your Spouse Happy Makes You HealthierThe Chicago Booth economics professor emeritus explains offsetting responses to regulation.
Sam Peltzman Thinks You Should Belt UpThe best reporting system would combine rules-based and principles-based approaches.
A Guide for More Accurate, Transparent Financial ReportingSuccessful experts rely on five principles of effectual logic to solve problems.
Corporate Leaders: Watch How Entrepreneurs ThinkIf you’re raising support for a cause, try to get potential donors to feel that they’re giving something of themselves.
Charities: Get Donors to Give a Piece of ThemselvesYour Privacy
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