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Are the rich more selfish than the rest of us?

  • Written by Jan Stoop, Associate Professor of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
imageBusinessmen pass by Occupy Wall Street protesters at New York's Zuccotti Park in 2011.AP Photo/Kathy Willens

Social scientists have long known that the rich are not exactly model citizens.

They evade taxes more often, flaunt traffic laws that protect pedestrians and donate less frequently to charity. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, there...

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