Looks at the paradox inherent in a system where our ethics and values as producers (hard work etc.) are at odds with our ethics as consumers (ease and debt) among other things.
Money will remain at the centre of human affairs, weaving its way into matters of love, death and social connectedness. But the return of a sense of scepticism about the innate moral worth of money may be the most valuable outcome of recent events.
New Scientist surveys what science can tell us about people’s relationship with money.
Dough, wonga, greenbacks, cash. Just words, you might say, but they carry an eerie psychological force. More»
The politics of scarcity havenít served us well, and the nonstop fear-sell has worn us down to a spiritual nub. For the first time in our lives, we truly have to have faith to do anything: spend, lend, invest or replenish. With each passing day, the dread inside us drains energy until, at some point, we just glaze over and adopt a new mantra: whatever. More»
There is all kinds of evidence that this economic tsunami…is radically changing the ways Americans think about money and the ways it has defined our modern way of life. We’re seeing an economic paradigm shift in the way people are beginning to save rather than spend. More»
Suggests in an society where there is less cash transactions and more electronic transactions there is greater tendency for people to be dishonest and still think they are honest.