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The trouble with the apology

With Dr. Miriam Whitcombe on what fairness does to markets, marriages and the morning commute, and what the data actually shows.

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With Dr. Miriam Whitcombe on what fairness does to markets, marriages and the morning commute, and what the data actually shows.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

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Alina Petrova is a Year 12 student preparing to apply to university, and the founder and editor of The Unreasonable Human. She reads across psychology, economics, behavioural science and neuroscience, and writes about the gap between how people are supposed to decide and how they actually do.

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