Showing posts with label behavioral economics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label behavioral economics. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Divergent views on behavioral economics: books by Loewenstein and Chater, and Thaler and Imas

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 You could hardly have two more different books on behavioral economics, both by important contributors to the field. Chater and Loewenstein...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Experimental and behavioral econ at Stanford in August (registration open)

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 Here is the program and links to register for the Stanford Experimental Economics session at SITE this summer:  Session 13: Experimental E...
Sunday, April 20, 2025

The Mystery of the Ultimatum Game, by Kayoko Kobayashi,

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 I get very little snail mail these days, but every now and then an interesting book arrives.  The latest is the English translation of the ...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

Dan Ariely has replaced Milton Friedman as the inspiration for a fictional Sherlock Holmes-type crime solver

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Remember Henry Spearman?  He's the hero of the Henry Spearman mystery novels by Marshall Jevons . He's a crime-solving Sherlock whos...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Danny Kahneman, remembered by Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

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 Daniel Kahneman, 1934-2024: Nobel Prize Winner & CASBS Legend "Daniel Kahneman, the Nobel laureate, professor emeritus of psycholo...
Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Danny Kahneman (1934-2024)

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  Danny Kahneman passed away today. Here's the Washington Post obituary: Daniel Kahneman, Nobel-winning economist, dies at 90. He found...
Friday, December 22, 2023

Decline and decay of nudges

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  Here's the latest paper to suggest that small "nudges" can have much less of a lasting effect than was initially thought. Th...
Sunday, September 10, 2023

Nudges, shoves, regulations and designs: debate in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

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Do "nudges" provide low cost solutions to big economic problems? Are they crowding out more effective, but harder or more expensiv...