money
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dignity, trust, failure
Originally posted on coromandal: Acumen Fund’s observations about poverty alleviation at their 10 year anniversary. What does not help: money and markets as the only measure, parachuting solutions remotely, depersonalized analytic approach. What does work: dignity, local leadership, government, patience… Continue reading
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Debt and the Indebted Person
What is it about “you must repay your debts” that allows even the best of people to justify the worst human actions? It is very much worth your time to at least listen to the 65 minute lecture below by… Continue reading
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Bankers and the neuroscience of greed | Ian Robertson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
While power in moderate doses can make people smarter, more strategic in their thinking, bolder and less depressed, in too-large doses it can make them egocentric and un-empathic, greedy for rewards – financial, sexual, interpersonal, material – likely to treat… Continue reading
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