Seminars of Interest at Columbia 

Tuesday February 13th

12:30pm to 2:00pm - Uris 330 
Management Seminar - Bruce Kogut (Columbia)
Politics and Ideology

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 307
Macroeconomics Lunch Group - Shang-Jin Wei
Title Not Available

Thursday February 15th

12:30pm to 1:45pm - Uris 331
Finance Free Lunch (Faculty Only) -- Jesse Schreger
Title Not Available

Seminars of Interest at NYU

Tuesday February 13th

2:40pm to 4:00pm - 19 W 4th Street Room 517
NYU Neuroeconomics Colloquium - Molly Crockett (Yale)
The value of moral action

Article of the Week
Twitter reveals how future-thinking Americans are and how that affects their decisions
Researchers at Emory University recently published a paper in PNAS examining the connection between future-sightedness and risky decision-making. In particular, the researchers analyzed a large dataset of Twitter messages in addition to experimental survey measures to find that longer future-sightedness corresponded with less risky decisions.