Economics & Work

How Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky cracked open behavioral economics and enlightened all our choices.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

The annual rite of passage has always been more about the ambivalence of adults than the amusement of children.

In a major shift, psychologists now view an out-of-control compulsion to work as an addiction with its own set of risk factors and consequences.

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

Evidence shows that “centaurs” — human–AI teaming — produce better performance than either people or software can achieve alone.

Big Think guest writer Rory Stewart — former UK Secretary of State for International Development and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast — made a profound discovery about leadership while working with GiveDirectly.

The best of all investor attributes is easily attained — and unbeatable in combination with other advantages.

While the concept stretches back centuries, it has garnered significant attention in recent decades.

Is there a force keeping humanity in check?

Lynda Gratton, a professor of management practice at the London Business School, explains how business leaders can navigate a future in constant flux.

The major transformation in the where of modern workplaces is about to collide with a transformation in who is doing that work.

Across a variety of industries, trust and “upside-down management” have paid dividends.

The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.

Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.

Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.

A college education currently provides roughly a 10% rate of return, beating the long-term performance of equities.

In 1924, sociologist and social reformer Caroline Bartlett Crane designed an award-winning tiny home in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

An MIT study finds the brains of children who grow up in less affluent households are less responsive to rewarding experiences.

Defy conventional startup wisdom by charting a steady and impactful path to success.

Economics and religion help to explain the gap.

London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.

A new analysis suggests previous “total cost of ownership” studies overlooked key factors.

To see a true cross-section of American society, head to Applebee’s, Buffalo Wild Wings, IHOP, Chili’s, and Olive Garden.

The reported supremacy of generative AI over human brain-power in business ideation depends on how you define “better.”

China has always been one of the world’s wealthiest nations, but Chinese wealth looks different across the country’s eventful history.

In work and life, the rules of success are being redefined.

We used to think, “That email isn’t going to write itself.” But now it can, thanks to AI. And there’s so much more, from coding to marketing.

A “stakehodler” has both a voice and a vote, an economic interest in how each network stewards important global resources.

Huge shifts in the workforce demand real-world changes in management practices; “command-and-control” no longer cuts it.