Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Irrational Taxation?

Nope...not going where you think! I have a passing interest in politics, but this is more about psychology and knowledge of mathematics. I enjoy the looks at life from Freakonmics, named after a book by the same name. They look through the lense of economics at various aspects of life. There is much in the way of math in these observations, perhaps none more so than this idea on taxation.

A quick 2 or 3 sentence synopsis of this article will earn you 5 bonus points. The article can be found here. I will not mention this in class and you have until Monday of next week (11/2) to turn it in.

The infinity symbol, ∞, in several typefaces.Image via Wikipedia

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]