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A week of links

Links this week:

  1. Detecting irrational exuberance in the brain – neuroeconomists confirm Warren Buffett’s wisdom (original article here).
  2. Spouses are more genetically similar than people chosen at random, but they are far more similar in education (ungated pdf).
  3. A well established fact, but further evidence that impatient adolescents do worse later in life.
  4. Homo Oeconomicus Versus Homo Socialis – an interesting looking conference at ETHZ.
  5. Evolution in the social sciences – a special issue of PNAS.