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Daylight saving is not something for economists to lose sleep over

  • Written by Jayanta Sarkar, Senior Lecturer, Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology
Daylight saving is not something for economists to lose sleep overWaking an hour earlier on Monday won't make you much more dangerous.Shutterstock

Have you ever noticed that casinos don’t have clocks or windows?

That’s partly to encourage customers to lose track of time. Their owners have instinctively understood – long before this recent neuroscience study confirmed it – that...

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