{"id":7598,"date":"2019-09-20T08:15:54","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T08:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themint.kinsta.cloud\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2019-12-21T22:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T22:05:44","slug":"licence-to-be-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/licence-to-be-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Licence to be Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">We were probably all told as children to share and not be selfish.\u00a0 This contrasts with economic <!--more-->theory that assumes self-interest as the norm. And research has suggested that assumption affects the morals of economic graduates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But could economics have had influence on the selfishness of society more broadly or at least the acceptance of it? <b>Jonathan Aldred<\/b> thinks so and offers an explanation why in his new book. <i>The Mint<\/i> caught up with him to find out more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><b>Listen to the full interview here: <\/b><span class=\"s1\"><b>24:25 min<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were probably all told as children to share and not be selfish.\u00a0 This contrasts with economic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[971,132,418,974,896,978,941],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-economic-theory","tag-economics","tag-interview-audio","tag-interviews","tag-jonathan-aldred","tag-licence-to-be-bad","tag-sept-2019","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}