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Introducing a 2% minimum annual tax on households with more than £100 million in wealth could raise around £10 billion in 2026, while affecting fewer than 1,000 households in the UK, suggests a report by […]

“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.” This line, which echoes throughout Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 gangster film “The Godfather,” epitomizes the classic view of management: Doing business is, above all, about making money, even if […]

Infants exposed to respiratory illnesses through older siblings typically fare worse in education, income and health in adulthood, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen.This post was originally published on this site

“People hedge all the time,” says Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger. “Whether we are talking to a boss or a colleague, a salesperson talking to a client, a marketer trying to pitch something or even […]

In a study published in Economic Inquiry that analyzed debt and income across U.S. counties at the onset of the Great Recession in 2008, investigators uncovered evidence that debt may affect the likelihood of suicide.This […]

Low-skilled workers are less likely to participate in employer-sponsored continuing education programs than their more highly skilled colleagues. They are less convinced that acquiring additional skills has a positive effect on career success and job […]

Avoiding guilt is a powerful motivator for charitable giving, according to a study in PNAS Nexus. Masahiko Haruno and colleagues ran two experiments to determine the most effective psychological framing to encourage donations to WaterAid, […]