{"id":5508,"date":"2007-06-12T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2007-06-12T14:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T09:06:00","slug":"the-economics-of-apologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-economics-of-apologies\/","title":{"rendered":"The economics of apologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/dcc43880-13c8-11dc-9866-000b5df10621.html\" title=\"Dear Economist -- Tim Harford\">Tim Harford writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A]n apology&#8230; represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling. The alternative is to admit nothing and look like a competent hard-man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is immensely problematic for men, especially, because the chicas dig both &#8216;loveable&#8217; and &#8216;competent hard-man&#8217;. The best way to avoid this choice would be to do nothing wrong, so an apology is never required. (World peace would also be nice.) Sadly, that is an impossible condition. <\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ravikiran.com\" title=\"Ravikiran Rao\">Ravikiran<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/dcc43880-13c8-11dc-9866-000b5df10621.html\" title=\"Dear Economist -- Tim Harford\">Tim Harford writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A]n apology&#8230; represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling. The alternative is to admit nothing and look like a competent hard-man.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is immensely problematic for men, especially, because the chicas dig both &#8216;loveable&#8217; and &#8216;competent hard-man&#8217;. The best way to avoid this choice would be to do nothing wrong, so an apology is never required. (World peace would also be nice.) Sadly, that is an impossible condition. <\/p>\n<p>(Link via email from <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ravikiran.com\" title=\"Ravikiran Rao\">Ravikiran<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The economics of apologies - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-economics-of-apologies\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The economics of apologies - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tim Harford writes: [A]n apology&#8230; represents a choice to appear loveable but bumbling. The alternative is to admit nothing and look like a competent hard-man. This is immensely problematic for men, especially, because the chicas dig both &#8216;loveable&#8217; and &#8216;competent hard-man&#8217;. The best way to avoid this choice would be to do nothing wrong, so an apology is never required. (World peace would also be nice.) Sadly, that is an impossible condition.  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