A retired public school teacher, age 71, lives on a $48,000 state pension and pulls roughly $36,000 a year from a $1.1 ...

Fairness means listening to different perspectives and opinions. It does not always require giving equal weight or time to those different sides. So how does this work in practice? When people have ...

The economist Bart Wilson has an interesting post on one of the more important experiments that behavioral economists have run, the ultimatum game. The core insight that economists have gleaned from ...

The Social Security Fairness Act would repeal two federal policies: the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). The WEP can affect those who have worked long ...

It’s hard to create a workplace that employees believe to be fair. In a 2023 market survey of more than 4,400 workers from Great Place To Work®, only 36% of employees at an average company said they ...

Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one ...

We've all been there. You're dying to grab that last piece of cake on the table during an office meeting, but you are not alone. Perhaps you just cut off a small piece—leaving something behind for ...

Most parents like to believe that their children are more intelligent and insightful than the average person realizes. When it comes to concepts of fairness, they might be right, according to Harvard ...

One side effect of political division in the states — blue states getting bluer and red states getting redder — is that some policies don't have a chance of getting passed by partisan state ...