Business & Economics

Enlightened organizations understand that employees work at their best when they are treated with trust, respect, and fairness. At the same time, organizations are waking up to the fact that abusive leaders drive away talent, making them simply too expensive to keep. The question arises: How do we identify a toxic leader?

To understand the nature of money, we need to put aside conventional textbook knowledge and rethink our assumptions about the topic, says political economist Samuel A. Chambers. We spoke with him about the intricacies of this everyday phenomenon that tends to slip through our fingers just when we think we’ve got it all figured out.