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Game theory says you should charge your friends to borrow things

26 May 2017

When it comes to buying or borrowing goods, overall cost for society is smallest when people charge for lending

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Nowcasting may help forecast big earthquakes in 53 major cities

26 May 2017

Records of small quakes can help us gauge how close we are to really big ones, using a technique borrowed from economics and finance

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