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Level-headed: Economics experiment finds taste for equality

The rich don't get richer -- at least not in laboratory games. According to a new study of behavioral economics, published in the April 12, 2007, issue of Nature, people will spend their own money to make the rich less rich and the poor less poor. They do so without any hope of personal gain, acting, it seems, out of a taste for equality and sense of fair play.

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