http://www.metafilter.com/tags/behavioraleconomics Posts tagged with 'behavioraleconomics' at MetaFilter. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:11:47 -0800 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:11:47 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/74708/Two%2Dshort%2Dcourses <a href="http://edge.org/3rd_culture/thaler_sendhil08/thaler_sendhil_index.html">A Short Course In Behavioral Economics</a>, an "Edge Master Class" from Richard Thaler and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman. Also from Kahneman (who is considered by many to be the world's greatest living psychologist) and Edge: <a href="http://edge.org/3rd_culture/kahneman07/kahneman07_index.html">A Short Course in Thinking About Thinking</a>. <small>previously: (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69410/Hoping-for-a-new-voodoo">1</a>, <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/70827/To-Nudge-or-Not-to-Nudge">2</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.74708 Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:11:47 -0800 behavioraleconomics economics psychology thinking AceRock http://www.metafilter.com/70827/To%2DNudge%2Dor%2DNot%2Dto%2DNudge <a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2007/01/posners_respons_3.html">Richard Posner</a>, <a href="http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2007/01/libertarian_pat_1.html">Gary Becker</a> and <a href="http://uchicagolaw.typepad.com/faculty/2008/04/cass-sunsteins.html">Cass Sunstein</a> debate "<a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-thalerandsunstein2apr02,0,3730262.story">Libertarian Paternalism</a>", a fancy and ugly term used to describe how some behavior economists think recent findings about human fallibility might bear on law and public policy. <small>(<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/69410/Hoping-for-a-new-voodoo">previously</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.70827 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:33:08 -0800 behavioraleconomics libertarianpaternalism AceRock http://www.metafilter.com/69410/Hoping%2Dfor%2Da%2Dnew%2Dvoodoo In 1980 Ronald Reagan surrounded himself with economic thinkers that challenged the <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842353-1,00.html">prevailing</a> <a href="http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/keynes/keynescont.htm">Keynesian</a> doctrine with <a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/SupplySideEconomics.html">supply side economics</a>. In the same way that <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,842353-1,00.html">Arthur Laffer</a> and <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1976/friedman-autobio.html">Milton Friedman</a> drove <a href="http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/shared/pdf/ufd_reaganomics_full.pdf">Reagan's thinking</a>. A <a href="http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/richard.thaler/research/">new</a> <a href="http://faculty.chicagogsb.edu/austan.goolsbee/website/">generation</a> of economists from the University of Chicago are <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=4d40a39e-8f57-4054-bd99-94bc9d19be1a">advising Barack Obama</a>. Will <a href="http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0502/features/economics.shtml">behavioral economics</a> change politics the way supply side economics did a generation ago? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69410 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:26:35 -0800 behavioraleconomics economics election obama universityofchicago humanfont