Dying to beat the taxman
Joel Slemrod and Wojciech Kopczuk have found evidence that people will do pretty much anything for money - even die for it. They tell us all about it in a study called Dying to Save Taxes.
Economists like to believe that people make rational decisions and base all their actions on cool self-interest. In the backs of their minds, though, they wonder….
So begins this week’s Improbable Research column in The Guardian.