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The title of the paper by Gary S. Becker and Casey B. Mulligan is "On the Endogenous Determination of Time Preference." Translated this means how economic variables affect, or since economics is prescriptive - ought to affect, the value that people place on the future. This paper is available from:

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Comment: Requires mathematics.

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