Tag: Self-interest

  • Nation & World

    A plan for better banking

    A team of researchers at Harvard and in London has created a model of bank failure aimed at helping economies avoid crashes. Their work highlights a fundamental dilemma for regulators: Improving the safety of individual banks may make the financial system as a whole more dangerous.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    I’ll get mine, Jack

    A new paper suggests that the mutually beneficial relationships that species create are maintained mostly because of simple self-interest.

    4 minutes