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What We Should Ask About the Wealth Gap
March 31, 2015![everyday economics and responding to supply and demand, U.S. farmers are growing less corn and more soybeans and sorghum.](https://econlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/sorghum-fields-grain-farm-scaled-1-150x150.jpg)
How the World’s Most-Consumed Liquor Changed the Corn Market
April 2, 2015A professor of psychology and music at the University of Sydney entered the world of economics with her study of musicians, genre and mortality rates.
![Risk and mortality rates for musicians](https://econlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Human-Capital-musicians-and-mortality-rates-by-genre-graph.jpg)
From: Dianna Theadora Kenny, Univesity of Sydney
Dr. Dianna Kenny explains that, “The rock scene is a volatile mix of glamour, instant wealth, risk-taking, rebellion and psychological distress accompanied by taken-for-granted assumptions that pop musicians will live dangerously, abuse substances and die early.”
![Risk and musicians' mortality rates](https://econlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Human-Capital-musician-mortality-rates.jpg)
From: Dianna Theadora Kenny
Our Bottom Line: Risk
Although not directly related to mortality rates, risk is as institutionally life threatening to economics and finance as it is in pop music. In the three disciplines, risk is a common denominator.