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The myth of the rational market
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Justin Fox |
Chronicling the rise and fall of the efficient market theory and the century-long making of the modern financial industry, Justin Fox's The Myth of the Rational Market is as much an intellectual whod… |
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A course in behavioral economics
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Erik Angner |
"A Course in Behavioral Economics is a concise and reader-friendly introduction to one of the most influential areas of economics today. Covering all core areas of the subject, the book requires no a… |
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Misbehaving
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Richard H. Thaler |
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans―predictable, error-prone individuals. *Misbehaving* is his arrestin… |
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When to Rob a Bank
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Steven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner |
In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the landmark book Freakonomics FreakonomicsOver the past decade, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have published more than 8,000 blog posts on Freakono… |
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The undoing project
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Michael Lewis |
Examines the history of behavioral economics, discussing the theory of Israeli psychologists who wrote the original studies undoing assumptions about the decision-making process and the influence it … |
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Cents and sensibility
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Gary Saul Morson |
Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the… |
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Discover your inner economist
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Tyler Cowen |
Demonstrates how to use hidden economic principles behind everyday situations to reach one's personal goals, from reading a classic novel to finding a dentist, in a guide that demonstrates how to mak… |
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Phishing for phools
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George A. Akerlof |
Akerlof and Shiller argue that markets harm as well as help us. As long as there is profit to be made, sellers will systematically exploit our psychological weaknesses and our ignorance through manip… |
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Success and luck
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Robert H. Frank |
"A New York Times economics columnist explores the findings in recent years by scientists who have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life situations than most people imagin… |
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The undoing project
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Michael Lewis |
Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of studies undoing our assumptions about the decision-making process. Their papers showed the ways in which the … |
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Freakonomics
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Andrea Montero Cusset,Steven D. Levitt,Stephen J. Dubner |
*A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything*
Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still li… |
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Create your own economy
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Tyler Cowen |
One of the most respected behavioral economists in the world and coauthor of the "best economics blog in the universe"* offers an essential guide to success in a radically new hyper-networked age. Ho… |
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Predictably Irrational
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Dan Ariely |
How do we think about money?What caused bankers to lose sight of the economy?What caused individuals to take on mortgages that were not within their means?What irrational forces guided our decisions?… |
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