In what may be the supplest of all intellectual acrobatics, Western culture has reduced time, that most obscure and abstract of all intangibles, to the most objective of all quantities, money. Bob Levine has studied the social psychology of time for much of the past thirty years. If he's learned anything, it is that beliefs about time differ profoundly from culture to culture. He will discuss some of these differences and the consequences they may have for how we live our lives.
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