Sublime

this thought experiment suggests that we don’t cheat and steal as much as we would if we were perfectly rational and acted only in our own self-interest.

overstating billable hours by economic consultants.

The federal judge went ballistic at sentencing since I pled guilty to the state cases. . . . I was sentenced to 60 years. Not proper, appropriate, fair. . . . I tried to avoid a trial to save the stress to this community, my family, the victims, yet look what is happening. . . . I was a good doctor because my treatments worked, and those patients t

The criminalization of debt, then, was the criminalization of the very basis of human society.

suspect that when the amount of money that the participants could make per question was $10, it was harder for them to cheat and still feel good about their own sense of integrity