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Over the last 10 years, Behavioral Economics (BE) has become increasingly popular (see Google Trends chart below). According to BE, people’s economic decisions are often less guided by stable ...

He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel. By Robert D. Hershey Jr. Daniel Kahneman, who never took an ...

STOCKHOLM -- The Nobel economics prize has been awarded to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for research showing how people's choices on economic matters - whether on savings or game shows ...

Daniel Kahneman, who understood that not all economic decision-making is strictly rational, has died at the age of 90. His research, which focused on the ways human psychology can warp rational ...

Much of the worldwide economic and political debate these days circle around ensuring continued growth—which, it's hoped, will help various countries escape the global downturn, create more jobs and ...

IF it were necessary to classify Miss Hoyt's “Primitive Trade” as anthropological, economic, social, or psychological science, it would be difficult to assign it to its proper category, for it belongs ...

Explore 10 brilliant non-fiction books that explain the world’s complexities with depth and clarity—no oversimplification, just powerful insight.

Using data as reported in the JEL in 2000 and 1985, the authors examine the pricing and other characteristics of books. There has been a substantial rise in book prices, even in real terms, between ...

Political Psychology is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to the analysis of the interrelationships between psychological and political processes. The field draws on diverse disciplinary sources ...