In this episode from 2013, we look at whether spite pays — and if it even exists. <ul><li>SOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://cepr.org/about/people/benedikt-herrmann">Benedikt Herrmann</a>, research officer at the European Commission.</li><li><a href="https://freakonomics.com/series/people-i-mostly-admire/">Steve Levitt</a>, co-author of Freakonomics and host of People I (Mostly) Admire.</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-o-connor-a75a829/">Dave O'Connor</a>, president of Times Studios.</li><li><a href="https://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/46_1/oliver.php">Lisi Oliver</a>, professor of English at Louisiana State University.</li><li><a href="https://eowilsonfoundation.org/about-us/e-o-wilson/">E.O. Wilson</a>, naturalist and university research professor emeritus at Harvard University.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES:<ul><li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356302/?ref_=ttfc_ov_i">You Don't Know Bo: The Legend of Bo Jackson</a>, documentary (2012).</li><li>"<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2689568/pdf/0392-100X.29.044.pdf">Amputation of the nose throughout history</a>," by G. Sperati (ACTA Otorhinolaryngologica Italica, 2009).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cedex/documents/papers/2008-10.pdf">The Appearance of Homo Rivalis: Social Preferences and the Nature of Rent Seeking</a>," by Benedikt Herrmann and Henrik Orzen (Center for Decision Research and Experimental Economics, 2008).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS:<ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/what-its-like-to-be-middle-aged-in-the-middle-ages/">What It’s Like to Be Middle-Aged (in the Middle Ages)</a>," by Freakonomics Radio (2025).</li></ul></li></ul>

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