Humans often act irrationally, making decisions—sometimes important ones—that contradict our best interests. This kind of irrational behavior is at the center of behavioral economics, and this free, ...

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The roadmap to making meaningful change in your personal or professional life can be found in the discipline of behavioral economics. Historians trace the “custom of making new year’s resolutions” ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We set an example for a better future via education and research. Behavioral economics is an area of research that aims to combine ...

Behavioral economics uses an understanding of human psychology to account for why people deviate from rational action when they’re making decisions. In the model of rational action assumed by ...

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It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

Gig or sharing economy platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, Grubhub and Taskrabbit are rapidly redefining the meaning of work, innovation and prosperity in post-industrial capitalist economies. How has ...