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Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of doing business there.…

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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

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Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden… — Friedrich Engels
The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing. — Herbert Hoover
Owning your own home is America's unique recipe for avoiding revolution and promoting pseudo-equality at the same time. To keep citizens puttering… — Florence King
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks… — Dan Benishek
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander
All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you… — Dave Barry
I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points. — Jeff Foxworthy
If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct. — Fran Lebowitz
Until the nineteen-seventies, Western countries paid little attention to corruption overseas, and bribery was seen as an unpleasant but necessary part of… — James Surowiecki
May the IRS find that you deduct your pet sheep as an entertainment expense. — Christopher Moore
Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Little Johnny's teacher asks him to make a sentence using the following words: defeat, deduct, defense and detail. Little Johnny says, De… — Tamika-leeigh

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