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The New Republic on Obama’s economic guru and Gordin’s yikhes
In the March 12th issue of The New Republic, Noam Scheiber writes of the effect of Richard Thaler’s economic theories on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. Scheiber writes, “Thaler is r… more →
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Day 4: When everything you know is wrong (almost)
wrote 4 days ago: How do you feel when you suddenly find out some of the basic rules or ideas in your life are just il … more →
Evliya Çelebi and the Leopold Taler
wrote 3 months ago: Here’s an entertaining description of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I; who lived from June 9, 1640 to M … more →
Understanding Your Psychological Pitfalls Through Behavioural Analysis
wrote 4 months ago: The fastest growing field in investment research today is Behavioural Finance. Traditionally, academ … more →
Christian Smith - The Futures Interview
wrote 5 months ago: Christian Smith Christian Smith is the CSR Manager for ASOS.com. He has also just completed his MSc … more →
Behavioural economics in everyday life
wrote 6 months ago: How do ordinary people make decisions under the conditions of extreme uncertainty seen on the game s … more →
In defence of Nudging
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wrote 6 months ago: Two articles today got me both inspired and frustrated. The first is a well written, thought-provoki … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Saxony ERNESTINER: Joh. Friedrich and Georg, thaler 1539, Mzz. Star with cross. Vs. Insignificant sm … more →
Everybody will be doing behavioural economics in qual
wrote 6 months ago: Do you see what I did there? Social norming in action - that clever Obama chap took advice from BE e … more →
From Behavioural Insights To Chris Moyles
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wrote 7 months ago: Required listening for anyone in research, I think: All In The Mind Special: The Behavioural Insight … more →
Is government a platform?
wrote 7 months ago: An intriguing paper by Tim O’Reilly is published in Innovation, volume 6, number 1, following … more →
3 ways Behavioural Economics can shape our future... 3) Design
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wrote 10 months ago: Aza Raskin, formerly Creative Lead at Mozilla, now co-founder of Massive Health. Aza’s new ven … more →
Nudging the world toward smarter public (data) policy: An interview with Richard Thaler
wrote 11 months ago: Nudging the world toward smarter public policy: An interview with Richard Thaler Public and private … more →
Nudge: paternalism of the neoliberal kind?
wrote 11 months ago: Imagine that marriage becomes privatised. Privatising marriage would mean that the state monopoly on … more →
A CONTAGION OF GOOD EXAMPLE
wrote 1 year ago: A Sustainable Energy Future Will Require Changes in Public Behavior At a recent meeting at Duke Univ … more →
What does store design have to do with price increases?
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wrote 1 year ago: In a WSJ interview Wal-Mart’s chief of U.S operations says this about Wal-Mart’s attempt to re-desi … more →
Delivering a social nudge
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wrote 1 year ago: Cover via Amazon I’ve written before about Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein’s riveting textbook on how org … more →
Oy Dave! Down here!
wrote 1 year ago: Oy, Dave! Down here! By now we’ve probably all heard of the phrase The Big Society being used by Dav … more →
New Book to check out: Nudge
wrote 1 year ago: By Bill Wu People behave in certain ways in certain environments. This could vary from how we pick o … more →
The Power of the Thaler
wrote 1 year ago: I collect coins – ancient mostly, but some from more recent times. So the other day I happened … more →
