[FoRK] Math, law-breaking, taxes, fairness, efficiency, psychology

[Jeff Bone]

This morning I came across this paper tying together a couple of  
recent threads --- the mathematics of law-breaking and taxes:

   http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.0998

Also, apparently there's some evidence to suggest that humans are hard- 
wired to prefer fairness to efficiency:

   http://www.livescience.com/healthday/615350.html

...which may explain Obama's / the populist "screw the rich" meme  
pretty well.  (Broken understanding of fairness a prereq...)

Enjoy!


jb