David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

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National Academy of Sciences 107, no.
38 (August 2010): 107. Barry Schwartz
and Adam Grant discuss happiness in
terms of an inverted-U curve in “Too
Much of a Good Thing: The Challenge
and Opportunity of the Inverted U,”
Perspectives on Psychological Science
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In “Using Maimonides’ Rule to
Estimate the Effect of Class Size on
Scholastic Achievement” (Quarterly
Journal of Economics [May 1999]),
Joshua Angrist and Victor Lavy
acknowledge the possibility that what
they are seeing is a left-side
phenomenon: “It is also worth

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