Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions (#326)
A daycare started fining parents for picking up their children late. Instead of arriving on time, parents started arriving even later. Why would a punishment encourage the very behavior it was meant to stop? Stephen Dubner, bestselling co-author of Freakonomics and longtime host of Freakonomics Radio, has spent more…
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