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Comments on: Why don’t we work fewer hours? http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/08/21/why-dont-we-work-fewer-hours/ The Visible Hand in Economics Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:28:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jamesz http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/08/21/why-dont-we-work-fewer-hours/#comment-39872 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:28:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=7464#comment-39872 In reply to Kimble.

Maybe the answer’s not so obvious and we’re all just stuck in an awful prisoner’s dilemma!

]]> By: jamesz http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/08/21/why-dont-we-work-fewer-hours/#comment-39871 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 01:27:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=7464#comment-39871 In reply to Bill.

Hmmm, so this isn’t a weirdly Posnerian thing?! That’s odd, and slightly worrying.

]]> By: Kimble http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/08/21/why-dont-we-work-fewer-hours/#comment-39869 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:43:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=7464#comment-39869 I can just see this book being bandied about by the usual suspects, as proof we work too hard and that there exists another scientifically validated way of organising society. Citing the vibe rather than content. Ala The Spirit Level.

]]> By: Bill http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/08/21/why-dont-we-work-fewer-hours/#comment-39868 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:15:00 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=7464#comment-39868 When we were moving from the US to NZ, we just quit our jobs and figured we would sort things out. Any number of people asked us, ‘what will you do?’, as if there were nothing else to fill our days except work. It was the strangest thing.

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