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- A new video (Chapter 7): The High Price of OwnershipToday
- We have been a bit slow with the videos, but here is the one for Chapter 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drEVExtrUgQ
- SHHH . . . DON’T SAY ‘RECESSION.’November 30
- I wrote this about 8 months ago — but it makes particular sense right now …. — If (as is often the case) talking about sex makes people more interested in having it, does that mean that the current talk about a recession could actually be creating one? Well, maybe. Or so one general finding of behavioral economics [...]
- Insights from an illegal-content providerNovember 25
- One of the unexpected benefits of writing my book, Predictably Irrational, is the email I get from people. They discuss topics that range from raising kids to dealing with cancer to financial savings. A few weeks ago I received an email. The sender had just finished listening to an illegal download of the audiobook and [...]
- What’s the Value of a Big Bonus?November 20
- From the NYT op-ed BY withholding bonuses from their top executives, Goldman Sachs and UBS may soften negative reaction from Congress and the public if their earnings reports in December are poor, as is expected. But will they also suffer because their executives, lacking the motivation that big bonuses are thought to provide, will not do [...]
- Standard vs behavioral economics (I have experiments …)November 20
- I have experiments … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwa1ZJlg4e8