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Christian T. Elbaek

@celbaek.bsky.social
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Associate Professor at Aarhus University | investigating how scarcity and economic inequality influences financial and moral judgment & decision-making Website: www.au.dk/en/chel@mgmt.au.dk

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵
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Dirk Wulff @dirkwulff.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🔬 How has psychology contributed to achieving the 🇺🇳 SDGs? Our new preprint maps 230,000 psychology articles to the SDGs using our text2sdg R package (www.text2sdg.io) and analyzes historical trends in topics, national and gendered contributions, and citation patterns. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2512.08628
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Karolina Ścigała @kascigala.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Does “feeling right”—that is, experiencing regulatory fit—lead us to act more in line with our moral preferences? With @schildchristoph.bsky.social and @stepf.bsky.social, we conducted a series of the first large-scale, independent close replications in the field of regulatory fit.
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Clara Weißenfels @clarawe.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
1/ Does growing up poor always lead to political apathy? Very happy to share my first paper published (open access) in @electoralstudies.bsky.social, where I show that parents' influence mitigates the poverty gap in participation, while economic mobility does not. 🔗 shorturl.at/p5Bac
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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Proud to have signed letter from 600+ economists & inequality experts from 70 countries supporting the call for a new Independent Panel on Inequality- an Inequality IPCC- to tackle the inequality emergency- G20 leaders must support this. #G20SouthAfrica www.independent.co.uk/news/south-a...
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Top economists call on world leaders to set up an international panel on inequality
Hundreds of top economists and other experts including former U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen are calling for the world to set up an independent international panel on income and wealth inequalit...
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Four (!) three-year postdoc positions available at @au.dk: international.au.dk/about/profil... Join an incredible team & help understand the psychological & political implications of the clash between high-speed society & slow-speed democracy. Please share! @tboeggild.bsky.social can help with Qs
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Four three-year postdoctoral positions in the project Slow-Motion Democracy - Vacancy at Aarhus University
Vacancy at Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
It's ok, all holders of these securities need to do is buy an over-the-counter credit derivative to hedge their default risk, then securitize and tranche those derivative contracts and sell the resulting income streams. Assuming the top tranches get AAA credit ratings, what could possibly go wrong?
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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess
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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
This #SPSP preconference 1st happened in January of 2016 when the area was 'emerging'. It's more arrived than emerging these days. I will talk about how to approach inequality scholarship (be it central or peripheral to your research question) from a functional perspective: rdcu.be/eBHv8
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Interested in how social psychology can illuminate socioeconomic inequality? Come join us for the preconference on economic inequality and social class at SPSP!
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 08/10/2025
🚨 New research published today 'Before the fall' looks at what has happened to the distribution of household wealth in Britain and the impact on families. Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Ya8kInK
Senior Economist Molly Broome: 
"Wealth gaps in Britain are now so large that a typical full-time employee saving all their earnings across their entire working life would still not be able to reach the top of the wealth ladder. These gaps are doubly concerning as wealth mobility in Britain is low – people that start life wealthy tend to stay wealthy, and vice versa.
Rising house prices and changes in the value of pension promises account for most of the growth in wealth gaps since the early 2010s, rather than any active behaviour on the part of individuals, such as buying homes or acquiring new assets.
Soaring wealth and an acute need for more revenue has prompted fresh talk of wealth taxes ahead of the Budget next month. But with property and pensions now representing 80 per cent of the growing bulk of household wealth, we need to be honest that higher wealth taxes are likely to fall on pensioners, Southern homeowners or their families, rather than just being paid by the super-rich."
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Økonom og lektor ved CBS Birthe Larsen: »Vi ved, at det påvirker børn negativt hele livet at vokse op i fattigdom, og at de har svært ved at kravle op igennem indkomstlagene. Den her undersøgelse giver et bud på, hvorfor det er så svært«, siger hun. Læs denne artikel!: politiken.dk/del/gUv3kYAE...
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Fattige børn får dårligere mad, får sjældnere børstet tænder og får mindre opbakning fra læreren
Danmark | Sektionen med Politikens undersøgende journalistik og seneste nyt indenfor politik, ret, sundhed, uddannelse, forbrug, økonomi og aktuelle temaer
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
“What has happened is not that capital income trickled down, but that labour income ‘trickled up’” – @brankomilan.bsky.social on how income from capital remains a privilege of the few in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog Read the post here: buff.ly/BEs46q0
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New Capitalism in America, Part III - LSE Inequalities
Why is capital so concentrated and why do so few have it? Under the "new" capitalism, why do 85% of the world’s population remain capital-income destitute?
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 12/09/2025
The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.
A line graph titled "A comparison of World Bank estimates of extreme poverty" illustrates the global number of people living in extreme poverty. 

Two distinct lines are present: one in dark brown representing the previous estimates using a poverty line of $2.15 per day measured in 2017 prices, and another in blue for the latest estimates utilizing a new poverty line of $3 per day measured in 2021 prices. The brown line trends downward, starting around 2 billion in 1990 and reaching 692 million in 2024. The blue line, starting slightly higher at roughly 2.3 billion, shows a similar decline, reaching 817 million in 2024. The difference between the lines — 125 million — indicates the increase in the estimated number of people living in extreme poverty due to the new measurement criteria. 

The note at the bottom indicates that data has been adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs using international dollars from 2017 and 2021. The data source is the World Bank (2025)
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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Episode five of Antisocial Economics is out now! @wealtherty.bsky.social talks to Professor Adrian Sinfield about the hidden world of tax expenditures, and why we know so little about a huge government expenditure that benefits higher income earners the most.
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Antisocial Economics
What is wealth? How come so many of us haven’t got any? How does wealth inequality make poverty worse? In the UK and other rich economies, wealth inequality and poverty are at incredibly high…
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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Old money: Campaign finance and gerontocracy in the United States" By @adambonica.bsky.social & @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
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Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists
OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
On my way to #ISPP2025 in Prague! Very excited for our symposium on Saturday at 3:10PM arranged by @fransolmar.bsky.social: “Unpacking support for redistribution: Psychological mechanisms and interventions” Feel free to reach out if you want to meet up for a coffee and chat!
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I dag træder et nyt kontanthjælpssystem i kraft. Forskning viser at Kontanthjælpsreformen i 2002 med nettofald i indkomst for de fattigste på 30% (starthjælp) betød mere fattigdom, børn der trivedes dårligere, fik dårligere karakterer, kortere uddannelse, mindre i job, lavere indkomst som voksne.
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Trickle up economics
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If you took the $1.1 trillion earned by just 100 billionaires last year and mailed every household a check, it'd be $8,700 each. The thing is most billionaires don't actually pay taxes anymore. What the GOP bill is really doing is selling off public lands and cutting Medicare to pay off oligarchs.
A bar chart titled “The Cost of Billionaires Visualized” compares major U.S. expenses to the 2024 year-over-year wealth gains of just 100 billionaires. Bars represent spending or gains in billions of dollars and are labeled with household-level (HH) equivalents. Categories shown include:
	•	Ending homelessness: $20B ($159 per household)
	•	Federal employees: $210B ($1,670/HH)
	•	Teacher salaries: $214B ($1,702/HH)
	•	Gasoline: $307B ($2,449/HH)
	•	Groceries: $664B ($5,278/HH)
	•	Defense budget: $824B ($6,553/HH)
	•	100 billionaires: $1,094B ($8,700/HH)

A red banner at the bottom reads: “If we can’t afford groceries, we definitely can’t afford billionaires.”
Sources listed include HUD, NEA, BLS, USDA, OPM, and Bloomberg (Dec. 31, 2024).
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 14/06/2025
Okay this is getting ridiculous. In addition to the ongoing problems with the UK’s Labour Force Survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey (key source for measuring wealth inequality) has now also had its accreditation revoked due to falling response rates. osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-sus...
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Uri Simonsohn @urisohn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Fellow European researchers, if at all in your power, try to get your school to consider late applicants who were admitted to US programs. Hearing from many cases of admitted to top US schools who last minute realize they won't be allowed in the country.
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Birthe Larsen @birthelarsen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
“I Netflix-serien ‘Reservatet’ ses ekstrem rigdom - næsten eksotisk for Danmark. Men eksistensen af en superrig dansk elite er mere virkelig end nogensinde.” 25 reformer har medvirket til øget ulighed: Socialdemokratiet stemt for 12, DF/Konservative for 21, Venstre for 23 www.mm.dk/velfaerd/art...
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
What do tax cuts for the rich do? They increase inequality. They have no effect on economic growth or unemployment. "Our results provide strong evidence against the influential political–economic idea that tax cuts for the rich ‘trickle down’ to boost the wider economy."
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2025
1. After getting some further insight into changes at NSF (thanks to those who reached out), I deleted a previous post where I tried to make sense of Cheatham's memo as reported in the Science story below.
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NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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Kristina Bakkær Simonsen @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
‼️If you haven't seen the call already, this is your reminder‼️ 3-year postdoc in computational social science at Aarhus University to study societal norms about political power 🫅 I'll be @comptext.bsky.social in Vienna (April 24-26) if you want to meet up and hear more about the position ☕🗣️
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
My brilliant postdoc, @fransolmar.bsky.social, recently published experimental evidence suggesting that perceived inequities in health and education can drive support to reduce economic inequality. Really cool work!
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Patricia Lockwood @thepsychologist.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New paper “Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial prefrontal cortex” in @nature.com led by @mkwittmann.bsky.social with many others. We show basis functions code relations between people, similar to their role in other perceptual and motor domains www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Basis functions for complex social decisions in dorsomedial frontal cortex - Nature
A study combining group decision-making tasks with fMRI shows that the brain’s dorsomedial prefrontal cortex uses basis functions, similar to those in the visual, motor and spatial domains, to re...
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Chris Bail @chrisbail.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.
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John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Our new study was just published in Nature! In Michigan, we find a large and persistent racial excellence gap over time. Socio-economic status explains one-third of the racial disparity in top academic achievement while school factors only explain about 1/10th. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Measuring racial educational disparities over time amongst top achievers - Nature
Data from Michigan, USA, systematically document that comparatively fewer students from racial minorities excel in maths and reading, and that this gap grows as students progress through school.
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Instruktøren for kryolit-dokumentaren tager til genmæle i P1 Orientering - men svarene er langt fra overbevisende: www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/p1-or... For mig at se er dokumentaren et eksempel på misinformation, som det oftest praksiseres i politik og på sociale medier. 🧵 (1/4)
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P1 Orientering | Tirsdag 11. feb. 2025 | DR LYD
Er DR-dokumentaren om kryolit i Grønland egentlig retvisende? Er Elon Musks drøm om at købe OpenAI realistisk? Og går EU-regulering af AI for langt? Dagens værter: August Stenbroen og Pernille Rudbæ...
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Benoît de Courson @bdecourson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Does poverty lead to risk taking or risk avoidance? Turns out, to both. Our new paper (with D. Nettle & W. Frankenhuis) in @royalsocietypublishing.org explains why, and conducts preregistered tests of our ‘desperation threshold’ model. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... A 🧵
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The tariffs are mad; but what’s equally mad is that they somehow come as a surprise, when Trump has campaigned non-stop on this and controls all branches of government Precious time has been lost, but it’s not too late for countries to mount an effective response 1/x
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Max Roser @maxroser.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
'We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty' Four months ago, I made this proposal in the New York Times. I think with this 'gift article' link you can read it without being a subscriber: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | We Need a New Global Measure for Poverty (Gift Article)
Eradicating poverty is at the top of the U.N.’s stated goals. But their measure of poverty is only half the story.
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Check out our new paper just out in Journal of Management
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Robin Schimmelpfennig @schimmelpfennig.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Have you ever wondered why organizational research findings do not always seem applicable to practical contexts or the most urgent challenges of our time? New paper out 🙃 👉 tinyurl.com/376ueann @celbaek.bsky.social Panagiotis Mitkidis @anisha0singh.bsky.social @quinettaphd.bsky.social
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International Tax Observatory @taxobservatory.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
📣 Call for Papers: submission deadline 14 Mar Workshop on the Economics of Taxation 🗓️ 3-4 June 📍Barcelona Topics: #CorporateTax, inequality, #OffshoreWealth & more Keynotes: @dinapomeranz.bsky.social (University of Zurich) & Youssef Benzarti (UC Santa Barbara) 👉 taxobservatory.eu/event/worksh...
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Very proud to have been a part of this! Kudos to the core team for pulling off such a massive project!
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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Economic growth that just enriches one group greatly and generates only small benefits for many other groups is not shared prosperity.
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Kristian Bernt Karlson @kbkarlson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Do family background shape exposure to life cycle earnings volatility? With the beyond outstanding @filippogch.bsky.social, I have paper forthcoming in Social Forces that addresses this question with brother correlations in volatility exposure in Denmark, Germany, and the U.S. #sociology
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fascinating recent work highlighting that "...the larger the share of national income and wealth going to the top one percent and top 10% of the population, the more likely the democracy is to erode." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Nils Köbis @nckobis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Workshop opportunity this May in Berlin With @celbaek.bsky.social, Janis Zickfeld and Zoe Rahwan, we are organizing an EASP Group Meeting on The Future of Behavioral Ethics: Social Perspectives on Dishonesty @easpinfo.bsky.social More info: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas... Deadline: 31st of Jan
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EASP Group Meeting The Future of Behavioral Ethics: Social Perspectives on Dishonesty
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Christian T. Elbaek @celbaek.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Interested in social perspectives on dishonesty? We are organising a EASP group meeting on the future of behavioral ethics, in Berlin in May. We invite researchers of all career stages to present their work on dishonesty. You can find all info here: www.easp.eu/news/itm/eas...
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EASP Group Meeting The Future of Behavioral Ethics: Social Perspectives on Dishonesty
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
This year, 10 U.S. billionaires gained $787B in wealth. That's nearly 4X more than the $214B earned annually by all 3.2M U.S. public school teachers combined. In fact, more wealth went to a *single person* than to all teachers combined. Is that fair? This is what extreme wealth costs society.
A table from Bloomberg's Billionaire Index showing top 10 U.S. billionaires ranked by Year-To-Date (YTD) wealth gains. Elon Musk leads with +$245B YTD, followed by Zuckerberg (+$92.6B) and Bezos (+$74.5B). Source: Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
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Kris-Stella Trump @kstrump.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
New publication! When is it fair to tax the rich? I ask what attributes of the rich (hard worker, charitable, from modest background, treats workers well, etc) affect support for taxing the rich. (1/2) doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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When is it Fair to Tax the Rich? The Importance of Pro-Social Behavior - Kris-Stella Trump, 2024
Politicians, activists, and the rich themselves variously describe rich people as hard workers, greedy tax avoiders, generous philanthropists, and more. Occasio...
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