In a post from last year, I touched briefly on some results from my research having to do with a hypothetical scenario. Today we take a deeper dive. The scenario: Suppose a citizen is walking down the street one day when the police arrest him.  They don’t tell him why; they simply arrest him and [...]

Building on the last post about the primacy of money in the Chinese mindset, today we take a look at how this stacks up with a contrasting view from the U.S. This post picks up exactly where the last one left off, just after Carolyn Blackman has described the elaborate, theatrical negotiations she observed in [...]

Elaborating here on the theme from the last book post: the scarcity of money in the Chinese mindset. I ended that last book post by contrasting the default Chinese view with a different, American view of scarcity: the opportunity to use one’s talents in the most fulfilling way possible. In this post we delve more [...]