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James Madison, Federalist No. 51, in The Federalist Papers (https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/text-51-60, 1788).
The Stoic Capitalist
Robert Rosenkranz
By being good businesses before they can be big business, new venture companies can raise money when there’s exciting investment opportunities in the business. Old venture companies raise money because they’ll go out of business if they don’t.
How Many Ways Can You Make Money?
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As for agreeableness, it turns out that the more agreeable men in this data pool earned significantly less. Being one standard deviation higher on agreeableness is correlated with a reduction in lifetime earnings of about 8 percent, or $267,600. While that result is confirmed only for high-IQ individuals in California for a particular span of the twentieth century, it is broadly consistent with the results of other studies, some of which have been cited here already. These people might just not be aggressive enough in pushing their own case forward, instead preferring to go with the flow.
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Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross
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