Monthly Archives: June 2009

Markets and Fairness

June 8, 2009 – 10:58 am

One of the most common ideas about the behavior of a perfectly structured market is that it would provide higher rewards for people who work harder. In the end, this is how it should work, this is the fair way to distribute income - rewarding effort, punishing idleness. Or should it?

By Michal Gancarski | Posted in Economics | Comments (0)

The Science of Fraud in Science

June 6, 2009 – 4:03 pm

“The Economist” on fraud in science:
Moreover, when it came to airing suspicions about colleagues, the numbers went up. The meta-analysis suggested that 14% of researchers in the underlying studies had seen their colleagues fabricate, falsify, alter or modify data. If the question was posed in more general terms, such as running experiments with deficient methods, failing […]

By Michal Gancarski | Posted in Science | Comments (2)