It’s hard to create a workplace that employees believe to be fair. In a 2023 market survey of more than 4,400 workers from Great Place To Work®, only 36% of employees at an average company said they ...

Fairness means listening to different perspectives and opinions. It does not always require giving equal weight or time to those different sides. So how does this work in practice? When people have ...

Human behaviors are often explained as hard-wired evolutionary leftovers of life on the savannah or during the Stone Age. But a study of one very modern behavior, fairness toward total strangers one ...

The economist Bart Wilson has an interesting post on one of the more important experiments that behavioral economists have run, the ultimatum game. The core insight that economists have gleaned from ...

There was a Democratic shift toward fairness and equality as rhetorical frames under George McGovern, shown in 1972 under photos of John F. Kennedy, right, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Inequality is a hot ...

The word fair can be triggering. Every time my nine-year-old uses this term to describe some injustice done he has suffered, I bristle. I believe too many people carry the idea that life isn’t fair ...

Most people care about fairness. Humans are, after all, moral creatures. And yet it’s mostly the political left that speaks of “fairness.” That’s unfortunate, because policies that flow from the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act, which passed the U.S. House by a strong bipartisan vote, seeks to end the WEP and GPO provisions that unfairly reduce Social Security benefits for public servants, ...

Concerns about financial fairness often occur when a financial benefit or expense is distributed differently among two or more people or groups of people. For example, a financial benefit might be ...