Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics, is someone who has been featured in this blog when we posted his T.E.D. Lectures.
Best-selling Author, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, The Upside of Irrationality and Predictably Irrational.
"An expert on how people actually act—and why they act—in business and economic environments, professor and best-selling author Dan Ariely shows what human behavior means for business innovation, strategy, marketing and pricing."
The Invisible Hand: Perverse Incentives
by Matthew Lazin - Ryder
CBC RADIO Podcast
photo credit: eschipul
Homo Economicus 2.0 Podcast Economists often use models to explain economic theory at work. In the simplest models, we humans are depicted as coldly rational beings who compute all our options, and act in our own self interest. This prototype of a person is called Homo Economicus. New thinking, however, is giving us a much more well-rounded view of human behaviour within economics.
In this episode we reveal a new model of a man, Homo Economicus 2.0. [MP3 file: runs 27 minutes]
In this episode we reveal a new model of a man, Homo Economicus 2.0. [MP3 file: runs 27 minutes]
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