TR EMERITUS

(The Economist, 3 Mar) - The only poll that counts, supposedly, is election day. But for the sophisticated vote-rigger that is terrible advice. Election day is too late. If you go around beating up your opponents’ voters, stuffing ballot boxes and making up results, someone somewhere is bound to complain. All those foreign... 

(Time, 28 Feb) - While stereotypes suggest that poor people are more likely to lie and steal, new research finds that it’s actually the wealthy who tend to behave unethically. In a series of experiments — involving everything from dangerous driving to lying in job negotiations and cheating to get a prize — researchers... 

(Wired, 27 Feb) - As an individual’s wealth and status rise, so does their tendency to be unethical, concludes a new study of the relationship between socioeconomic and ethics. The study included seven different experiments that spanned real-world and laboratory settings, from rude San Francisco drivers to test subjects...