Экономика и будущее

А что, только я проглядел это, когда было новостью? Оно бы вообще забылось, но в связи с событиями в Греции недавно кем-то отрылось.

A new study from a Yale University economist concludes that people save more or less according to the language they speak.

Behavioral Economist Keith Chen is interested in how people make financial decisions. Last year, he started wondering if people whose native languages make fewer distinctions between the future and present might think differently about the future.

[…] he found that people who speak languages requiring a separate future tense— English, Arabic, Greek, the Romance languages— are far worse at saving money than people whose languages don’t really distinguish between the future and the present, like Chinese, German, Japanese, or Norwegian.

Чушь, разумеется. Но забавно.