Weekend Readings – 5/29

Public Misperceptions and Ignorance

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21699455-dealing-problem-public-misperceptions-ignorance-isnt-bliss

Politics and the Absence of Principles

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21699453-heard-trail

Finance and Democracy – History Lesson

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/05/athenian-finance-democracy-william-goetzmann/484397/

CUNY Funding Struggles and the US Higher Education System

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/nyregion/dreams-stall-as-cuny-citys-engine-of-mobility-sputters.html

Asset Bubbles – A Glut of $100 million-plus Homes

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/business/a-worrisome-pileup-of-100-million-homes.html

What Happens to Your Book Collection After you Die?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/27/how-i-mourned-my-sister-through-the-books-she-left-behind/