TAG: behavioraleconomics
"Paying People to Lose Weight Helps Drop Pounds and Health-Care Costs"
Tags: economics behavioraleconomics gametheory health
"Along the same lines, I got to thinking how the world was able to for the most part fix the Y2K bug . . . Yet in most other cases, impending disasters, like our dependence on oil, failing infrastructure and unsustainable spending, all go unheeded."
Tags: culture psychology behavioraleconomics
"Economics often presumes that people act rationally. Ulrike Malmendier knows better."
Tags: behavioraleconomics culture
"Who has it right, and who has it wrong? KEVIN HASSETT on the economics of managing an NFL football team."
Tags: economics sports football behavioraleconomics
"Because we underestimate how much variation can be caused simply by luck, we see patterns where none exist. It’s no wonder that management theory is dominated by fads . . . "
Tags: business psychology behavioraleconomics
Phsyical Scientists & Gutter Thieves
"Recent studies show that you prefer say 100 units of pain now than say 50 units of pain in some time in the future. The anticipation kills us."
Tags: behavioraleconomics economics culture psychology
