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As a culture we like to think of our achievements as the triumph of the individual. But last week I used a memorable chicken breeding example to show you that group performance outweighs individual performance in a group environment because a focus on individual performance comes at a cost to the group performance. The reality [...]

It has been claimed that interpersonal trust can play more of a role in how an economy develops than capital, as the complexity of business transactions increases. In a recent thesis from the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, researcher Pelle Ahlerup demonstrates that there is reason to believe that [...]

Childhood asthma is less common in neighborhoods with high economic potential and strong community vitality, new research shows. “It’s nice to be able to look at some positive characteristics of neighborhoods that may protect against asthma,” Dr. Ruchi S. Gupta, of Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, one of the researchers on the study, told Reuters [...]