behavioural economics

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

by Richard H. Thaler  · 10 May 2015  · 500pp  · 145,005 words

theory is being realized. The field has become known as “behavioral economics.” It is not a different discipline: it is still

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the mix. Behavioral economics is more interesting and more fun than regular economics. It is the un-dismal science. Behavioral economics is now

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an early supporter and contributor to what we now call behavioral economics. Here is a famous passage from his essay: Let

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supposedly irrelevant factors, or SIFs. Much subsequent work in behavioral economics has been to show which SIFs are in fact highly

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to Friedman, whom I genuinely admired, I titled my first behavioral economics paper “Toward a Positive Theory of Consumer Choice.” The last

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one lecture a day. I was presenting new findings of behavioral economics and although Binmore was presenting unrelated work, he took

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will take up in Section VI. For the field of behavioral economics to succeed, we needed answers to these questions. And in

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it in the inaugural issue. I had my first behavioral economics publication, albeit in a journal no one had ever

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have collaborated with several, and has made important contributions to behavioral economics. Our project began with a conversation at an airport

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said of much of behavioral economics. The bulk of Smith’s writings on what we would now consider behavioral economics appeared in his earlier

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just two papers together, but Hersh got hooked on doing behavioral economics and soon formed a highly successful collaboration with Meir Statman,

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a product. INTERLUDE 13 Misbehaving in the Real World If behavioral economics is supposed to offer a more realistic description of how

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Greek Peak’s revenue model, making use of principles from behavioral economics. The first problem to solve was how to raise the

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Vancouver, I had been working full time on my risky behavioral economics endeavor for eight years. And either despite or because of

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of affairs was about to change. 17 The Debate Begins Behavioral economics got its first major public hearing shortly after I returned to

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whether there was really any reason to take psychology and behavioral economics seriously. If anyone had been laying odds on who would

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turned twenty-one. Colin has made many important contributions to behavioral economics. Two stand out. First, he more or less invented

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to the field were all important milestones, I knew that behavioral economics as an academic enterprise would flounder unless it could acquire a

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Russell Sage Foundation, also located in New York. Although behavioral economics was not at the core of the stated mission of

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hire Eric that they agreed to let him bring his behavioral economics agenda along with him. Naturally, he had no more

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was that if there were to be a successful field called behavioral economics, it would have to be a truly interdisciplinary effort with

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years, Drazen Prelec and Eldar Shafir being notable examples, behavioral economics has turned out to be primarily a field in which

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1992, the foundation formed a group of researchers called the Behavioral Economics Roundtable, gave them a modest budget, and tasked them with

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summer. No university was then teaching a graduate course in behavioral economics, so this program would be a way for students

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were officially called the Russell Sage Foundation Summer Institutes in Behavioral Economics, but from the beginning everyone referred to them as

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Rabin. Both had independently decided to take up careers in behavioral economics. Ernst Fehr is the most aptly named economist I

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by birth, Ernst has become a central figure in the behavioral economics movement in Europe, with a base at the University of

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was at that time the most important theory paper in behavioral economics since “Prospect Theory.” His paper was the first serious

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was his budding interest in behavioral economics that tipped him from computer science to economics for his

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Among his other accomplishments, Sendhil founded the first behavioral economics nonprofit think tank, called ideas42. He, Matthew

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research produced by those summer camp graduates that has turned behavioral economics from a quirky cult activity to a vibrant part of

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thank Eric Wanner for helping them get started. He is the behavioral economics’ founding funder. ________________ * There are some exceptions to this generalization

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Making, attracts over 500 scholars whose work often intersects with behavioral economics. There are also a number of notable behavioral scholars in

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East Side The contributions of the Russell Sage Foundation to behavioral economics were not limited to the creation of the Roundtable.

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opportunity for high rewards. Nothing would help the cause of behavioral economics more than to show that behavioral biases matter in financial markets

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difficult to express how dubious people were about studying the behavioral economics of financial markets. It was one thing to claim that

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in the program. When Charles took my doctoral class in behavioral economics, I suggested closed-end funds as a topic for a

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I might give a plenary talk on the applications of behavioral economics to the law at a conference he was organizing.

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currently practiced, should be modified to accommodate recent findings in behavioral economics. The traditional law and economics approach was based exclusively on

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idea was to introduce some of the essential elements of behavioral economics into such arguments and see how they would have to

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Cass had already been collaborating with Danny and was excited about behavioral economics. In the world of academic law, Cass is a

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they are now extinct.) Furthermore, the real point of behavioral economics is to highlight behaviors that are in conflict with the

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another topic. The fact that the strongest resistance to behavioral economics came from those who had the greatest investment in building

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done, enough to fill an 800-page Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law, edited by Eyal Zamir and Doron Teichman

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positions. Becker made this conjecture when he was asked his opinion of behavioral economics. “Division of labor strongly attenuates if not eliminates any effects [

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a third goal lurking in the background: could we use behavioral economics to make the world a better place? And could we

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this on. 31 Save More Tomorrow Given the attention the behavioral economics community had collectively devoted to the problems of self-control,

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test, which we will get to later in this chapter. Behavioral economics offers more potential in this and many other policy domains

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, inertia would work for us. Everything I knew about behavioral economics suggested that such a plan would work. Naively, I

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2003. Peter was an early fan of and contributor to behavioral economics, and he took the opportunity to organize a few

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ran the country. And amazingly, he was already a fan of behavioral economics. Lord O’Donnell, as he is now called, has a

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was in touch. The new government was serious about using behavioral economics, and behavioral science more generally, to make government more effective

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PAL), which specializes in running RCTs, and ideas42, which has behavioral economics as its core strength. In just the first year, the

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of the BIT has often been mischaracterized as being based on behavioral economics whereas, in fact, there has been, at least up to

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the List on my office blackboard. Much has changed. Behavioral economics is no longer a fringe operation, and writing an economics

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professional renegade, I am slowly adapting to the idea that behavioral economics is going mainstream. Sigh. This maturation of the field is

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the core “rational” macroeconomic model does not imply that behavioral economics principles cannot be profitably applied to big-picture policy issues.

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theory is, of course, the seminal evidence-based theory in behavioral economics. Kahneman and Tversky began by collecting data on what people do

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believe are effective. Another interesting result comes directly from the behavioral economics playbook. The team of Fryer, John List, Steven Levitt

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My participation in the making of behavioral economics has taught me some basic lessons that, with due caution

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circumstances. Here are three of them. Observe. Behavioral economics started with simple observations. People eat too many

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of the threat of an impending disaster. The making of behavioral economics has included a lot of speaking up to the high

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identify themselves as “behavioral” wrote some of the best behavioral economics papers published in recent years. These economists simply do solid

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model says those variables are supposedly irrelevant, the field of behavioral economics will disappear. All economics will be as behavioral as

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2, par. 9. 87 The same can be said of much of behavioral economics: See Ashraf, Camerer, and Loewenstein (2005) for a full discussion of this

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did the parties even attempt to negotiate: Farnsworth (1999). 269 Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law: Zamir and Teichman (2014). 269 “The battle . .

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and Camerer (2000) and DellaVigna (2009) for surveys of empirical applications of behavioral economics more generally. 353 intriguing finding by Roland Fryer: Fryer (2010). 354

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arbitration. One other example of mainstream economists doing research with a behavioral economics bent would be Edward Glaeser (2013) on speculation in real estate

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Gambles and Retirement Investments.” Management Science 45, no. 3: 364–81. ———. 2013. “Behavioral Economics and the Retirement Savings Crisis.” Science 339, no. 6124: 1152–3. Bernheim, B.

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Loewenstein, Ted O’Donoghue, and Matthew Rabin. 2003. “Regulation for Conservatives: Behavioral Economics and the Case for ‘Asymmetric Paternalism.’” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 151, no.

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54. ———, and Roberto A. Weber. 1999. “The Econometrics and Behavioral Economics of Escalation of Commitment: A Re-examination of Staw and Hoang’s

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-j-dot-c-dot-penney. Chetty, Raj. 2015 (forthcoming). “Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective.” American Economic Review 105, no

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.” Daily Show, Comedy Central, September 6. Stewart, Sharla A. 2005. “Can Behavioral Economics Save Us from Ourselves?” University of Chicago Magazine 97, no. 3. Available at:

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economy/27view.html. ———, and Shlomo Benartzi. 2004. “Save More TomorrowTM: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving.” Journal of Political Economy 112, no. S1: S164–

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Research. Zamir, Eyal, and Doron Teichman. 2014. The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. Zielinski, Sarah

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them the credit, and expect to start reading their great behavioral economics papers soon. Paolina, Seth, and I all reported to

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, 348 Arkes, Hal, 67 Arrow, Kenneth, 44, 181 in behavioral economics debate, 159, 160–62 financial economics work of, 208 Ashenfelter, Orley, 68,

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70, 257 Asian disease problem, 159–60 “as if” critique of behavioral economics, 44–47 ATMs, 133–34 automatic enrollment, 313–22, 318 vs

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Economics, A” (Jolls, Sunstein, and Thaler), 258–59 behavioral bureaucrats, 269 Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181, 183, 185 behavioral life-cycle hypothesis, 98 behavioral macroeconomics, 349

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University of, 255–56 behavioral economics conference at, 159–64, 167–68, 169, 170, 205 conference on 1987 crash at, 237 debate on behavioral economics at, 159–63, 167

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9 and efficient market hypothesis, 206 in experiments, 40n, 206n financial markets: behavioral economics and, 203–4, 205, 209–53, 349–50 high trading volume

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situations, 60 incentives, 47–49, 50, 52 monetary, 353 incentives critique of behavioral economics, 47–49, 50, 52 India, 364 individual investment behavior, 184 Individual Retirement

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invisible handwave critique of behavioral economics, 51–53, 149, 209 iPhone, 280, 326 Iran, 130 Irrational Exuberance (Shiller), 234 irrelevance theorem and behavioral economics, 164–67 IRS, 314

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, 335, 338, 353, 357 and “as if” critique of behavioral economics, 46 in behavioral economics debate, 159, 160 in Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181, 183, 185 book edited by, 187 on changes

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of incentives in experiments of, 47–48 and “learning” critique of behavioral economics, 49 on long-shot odds, 80–81 narrow framing work of,

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price, 237–39, 244, 247, 248, 250, 348 learning critique of behavioral economics, 49–51, 153 Leclerc, France, 257 Lee, Charles, 239 closed-end

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automobiles, 121–23 Loewenstein, George, 88, 111, 176, 180–81, 362 in Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181 effort project of, 199–201 paternalism and, 323 London, 248 Long Term

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humor, 218, 219, 223 value stocks and, 225–29 Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law, 269 Palm and 3Com, 244–49, 246, 250,

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295, 353 acceptance of, 38–39 and “as if” critique of behavioral economics, 46 and consumer choice, 55 and equity premium puzzle, 198 expected

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, David, 292 Rosen, Sherwin, 12, 15, 17, 21, 35, 42, 321 at behavioral economics debate, 159 Rosett, Richard, 17, 34, 46, 68, 73 Ross, Lee, 181 Ross

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, 180 Schelling, Thomas, 12–13, 14, 37n, 100, 104n, 178 in Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181 Schiphol International Airport, 326 Scholes, Myron, 208 Schwartz, Alan, 197

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167, 223–24 Shiller, Robert, 5n, 176, 242 in behavioral economics debate, 159, 167–68 in Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181 behavioral finance workshop organized by, 236 and behavioral macroeconomics

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330–33, 334 Silver, Nate, 47, 292 Simon, Herbert, 23, 29 in behavioral economics debate, 159, 162 Sinden, John, 148–49 skiing, 115–20, 138 Slovic,

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221, 261, 353, 357 and “as if” critique of behavioral economics, 46 in behavioral economics debate, 159–60 in Behavioral Economics Roundtable, 181 on changes in wealth, 30–31 equity premium puzzle

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of incentives in experiments of, 47–48 and “learning” critique of behavioral economics, 49 on long-shot odds, 80–81 Thaler’s first meeting with

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62n, 63 Wanner, Eric, 177–78, 181, 184 as founding funder of behavioral economics, 184 Washington Redskins, 279, 288–90 Washington Wizards, 19 Wason problem, 171–72

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Ming, 271n Zamir, Eyal, 269 Zeckhauser, Richard, 13–14, 178 in behavioral economics debate, 159 Zingales, Luigi, 274 ALSO BY RICHARD H. THALER Quasi-Rational

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edition as follows: Thaler, Richard H., 1945– Misbehaving : the making of behavioral economics / Richard H. Thaler. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and

Fixed: Why Personal Finance is Broken and How to Make it Work for Everyone

by John Y. Campbell and Tarun Ramadorai  · 25 Jul 2025

,” Review of Economics and Statistics 99 (2017): 1–15. 27. Nick Chater, Steffen Huck, and Roman Inderst, Consumer Decision-Making in Retail Investment Services: A Behavioural Economics Perspective, Final Report, 2010, https://www.dectech.co.uk/behavioural_science/public_research/dectech_research_ec.pdf. 28. Such feelings of “financial stress” are unfortunately

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used normatively to guide or advise people how to take appropriate risks. 8. For this reason, Richard Thaler, in his book Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (W. W. Norton, 2015), recommends looking at brokerage statements infrequently, perhaps once a year. 9. State lotteries also have negative returns and offer dreams of

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his article “Nudges vs. shoves,” Harvard Law Review Forum 127, no. 6 (April 2014): 210. Sunstein was debating Ryan Bubb and Richard H. Pildes, “How behavioral economics trims its sails and why,” Harvard Law Review 127, no. 6 (April 2014): 1593. Bubb and Pildes take a position similar to ours. 38. See

Licence to be Bad

by Jonathan Aldred  · 5 Jun 2019  · 453pp  · 111,010 words

descriptive – rational behaviour as normal or typical. Or it can be prescriptive – you ought to be rational. When faced with overwhelming evidence from psychology and behavioural economics that we often act irrationally, economists can respond that economic theories merely explore the ‘what if?’ implications of assuming everyone conforms to the economists’ ideal

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are willing to pay is not a reliable guide to what is truly valuable for them. People try to look after their own interests, but behavioural economics and psychology have shown how often they make mistakes. Moreover, willingness to pay is often constrained by ability to pay. That is why our global

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you are just cheating yourself. THE WEIRD WORLD OF NUDGE A widely discussed development in economics in recent years has been the emergence of behavioural economics. In essence, behavioural economics tries to study how people actually behave – in contrast to fantasies such as homo economicus which dominate orthodox economics. It uses ideas and methods

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Amos Tversky, who perhaps did more than anyone else to dislodge old orthodoxies in economics about how we think and choose. One big idea in behavioural economics began with Kahneman and Tversky’s Asian disease problem: Suppose you are told that an unusual Asian disease is expected to kill 600 people in

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the reality of counterproductive incentives suggested that another approach to policy-making was needed. But as the new behavioural economics began to filter through to policy-making circles, something strange happened. The central lesson of behavioural economics is that people make poor decisions – yet the policy innovation it provoked seeks to rely on precisely

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grain of human nature and respects freedom of choice. Or so it seems. The trouble with Nudge – and behavioural economics more generally – is that it still shares too many ideas with orthodox economics. Behavioural economics inspired by Kahneman and Tversky’s work is often labelled research on heuristics and biases. That last word reveals

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the underlying assumption of most behavioural economics: human decision-making is biased – in other words, flawed. While Kahneman and Tversky had launched a revolution in irrefutably demonstrating that people do not behave

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, the Nudgers, already know what they should want, so we can get on with nudging them in that direction. One practical problem here is that behavioural economics applies to elites too. Experts can mess up Nudging because they are vulnerable to the same cognitive flaws as the rest of us. Of course

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with, incentive designers must not ignore the previous sentence: context and culture matter. Unfortunately, ignoring context is an article of faith for many economists, and behavioural economics suffers from that inheritance. One reason is physics envy: the desire of economists to emulate sciences such as physics. Scientists do controlled experiments, so behavioural

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economists prefer to do controlled experiments too. Since suitable conditions for controlled experiments almost never exist in real life, most behavioural economics research is conducted in the lab.28 Students play games or answer hypothetical questions about contrived situations, such as how they would respond to a

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now much less theoretical, and more grounded in quantitative data. Second, economic theories are now more realistic, notably the models of human behaviour emerging from behavioural economics. This defence of economics is so ubiquitous that it demands discussion. Forging a new relationship with economics would be much easier if economists accepted that

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’ predictions about the real world. But how could anyone believe that homo economicus tells us anything about the behaviour of real people? Economists nowadays present behavioural economics as the answer to these concerns. We are told it represents a major step forward in terms of realism. In truth, it is a minor

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tweak. The ‘people’ described by behavioural economics still bear no resemblance to real humans. They behave just as robotically as homo economicus but they also make mistakes. In essence

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, behavioural economics is just homo economicus with bugs. Notably, the error-prone robots of behavioural economics are, like homo economicus, predictable – they are ‘predictably irrational’.18 But real humans are not easily predictable because they

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are capable of genuine choices – choices which are not predetermined by their environment. Behavioural economics provides no response to the ethical problems with mainstream economics. To begin with, behavioural economists are often blind to the dubious ethical assumptions and consequences

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of their policy advice, as we saw with Nudge. And the underlying message of behavioural economics is the same as that of Nudge – ‘ordinary people are stupid’. This is hardly a promising basis for a more respectful relationship between economists and

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they simply have a warped perspective of what is complex. As we’ve seen, many economists see behavioural economics as a set of ‘deviations’ from the textbook mathematical model of homo economicus. From this perspective, behavioural economics can be understood only if you already know that mathematical model – along with some harder maths on

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top to incorporate the deviations into the model. The effect is to make the simple ideas underpinning behavioural economics seem too complex to explain to the public. Whatever the reasons, economists must try harder. If they want us to heed their analysis, we must

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Translated, without the hyperbole: recent ‘progress’ in macroeconomics has been limited to devising mathematical proofs of what we already knew almost a century ago. Some behavioural economics suffers from the same limitation: with framing effects (Chapter 7) economists showed in experiments that people make different decisions depending on how the alternatives are

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of Economics (Princeton: Princeton University Press). 19 Sadrieh, A. (2010), ‘Reinhard Selten a Wanderer’, in A. Ockenfels and A. Sadrieh (eds.), The Selten School of Behavioral Economics (Berlin, Springer-Verlag), 5. 20 Gintis, H. (2009), The Bounds of Reason (Princeton: Princeton University Press). 21 For a rigorous development of the argument sketched

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). 25 For the evidence, and much more on how Nudge thinking remains unhelpfully shackled to economic orthodoxy, see R. Bubb and R. Pildes (2014), ‘How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why’, Harvard Law Review, 127, 1593–678. 26 Thaler, R., and Sunstein, C. (2008), Nudge (New Haven: Yale University Press), 249

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York: Oxford University Press). 35 Coyle, D. (2012), ‘What’s the Use of Economics?’ (London: London Publishing Partnership), 121. 36 For a perceptive critique of behavioural economics, see G. Morson and M. Schapiro (2017), Cents and Sensibility (Princeton: Princeton University Press), 272–87. 37 For an excellent discussion from a student perspective

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Behavior (1976), 130 The Economics of Discrimination (1957), 126–7 A Treatise on the Family (1981), 127–8, 130–31, 133 behaviourism, 154–8, 237 behavioural economics context and culture, 175–6 framing effects, 170–71, 259 and incentives, 160, 171, 175, 176–7 methods from psychology, 170–71 and Nudge, 171

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game theory, 40–41 Smith’s enlightened self-interest, 11 value of human life (‘statistical lives’), 141–5, 207 vocational role of, 260 see also behavioural economics; free-market economics economics, aims/pretensions to be science arrogance of, 205, 245–7, 258 Arrow’s framework presented as scientific, 72, 81–2, 124

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, 140, 156–7 and Gary Becker, 126, 129, 133, 136 and behaviour of real people, 15, 136, 144–5, 171, 172, 173, 250–51 and behavioural economics, 170, 171, 172, 255 long shadow cast by, 248 and Nudge economists, 13, 172, 173, 174–5, 177 Hooke, Robert, 223 housing market, 128–9

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–80 Sen’s mathematical framework, 80–81 incentives adverse effect on autonomy, 164, 165–6, 168, 169–70, 180 authority figure–autonomy contradiction, 180 and behavioural economics, 171, 175, 176–7 cash and non-cash gifts, 161–2 context and culture, 175–6 contrast with rewards and punishments, 176–7 ‘crowding in

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wages, 237–8 improvement in labour-intensive services, 92–3 labour input, 92 protectionism, 246, 255 psychology availability heuristic, 226 behaviourism, 154–8, 237 and behavioural economics, 12, 170–71 cognitive dissonance, 113–14 and financial incentives, 156–7, 158–60, 163–4, 171 framing effects, 170–71, 259 of free-riding

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theory, 18, 28, 29–32, 35–8, 41–3, 70, 124 axioms (abstract mathematical assumptions), 198 Becker’s version of, 128–9, 135, 140, 151 behavioural economics/Nudge view of, 173, 174–5 distinction between values and tastes, 136–8 economic imperialist view of, 135, 136–8, 140, 151 and free-riding

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with negotiations, 62–3 and values more important than efficiency, 64–5, 66–7 welfare maximization, 124–5, 129–31, 133–4, 148–9, 176 behavioural economics/Nudge view of, 173 and vulnerable/powerless people, 146–7, 150 welfare state, 4, 162 Wilson, Charlie, 215 Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 186, 188 Wolfenschiessen (Swiss village

Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

by Diane Coyle  · 11 Oct 2021  · 305pp  · 75,697 words

optimal decisions, but sometimes not. One could describe it as rational non-rationality. Chapter Three will return to other problems raised by the use of behavioural economics in policy choices, concerning the presumption that government interventions can lead people to better choices—whose definition of ‘better’ is this? Here I want to

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on a longstanding tradition of analysing departures from competition, as well as increasingly on the newer behavioural economics literature as applied to consumer choice. One nice example of why competition authorities are paying more attention to behavioural economics is given by Rufus Pollock, who looked at why deregulation of directory inquiries in the UK

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. Results like this mean that economists working in public policy or bodies like competition or industry regulators are now hungry to make better use of behavioural economics in their work. There are very many more examples. Clever economics in designing and implementing an auction of 3G spectrum rights to telecommunications companies netted

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of incorporating into their models assumptions about decision making that bear a closer relation to how people do in fact make decisions. This is the behavioural economics revolution, which moved quite quickly from the research lab and seminar room to the corridors of power, and implementation in policies. Another sign that economists

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are often very uncomfortable about making explicit normative judgements of this kind, preferring to believe that our recommendations stick to the territory of positive economics, behavioural economics is inherently paternalistic. This is because of its construction that people make ‘non-rational’ or ‘biased’ decisions, which implies ‘rational’ is better. For instance, economics

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cost of loans, but if that were the case none of us would borrow on credit cards, never mind take out payday loans. This means behavioural economics may prove more effective in policies ranging from financial and consumer regulation to social policy. Yet the idea of ‘choice architecture’ to ‘nudge’ people towards

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of economic decision making must incorporate people using rules of thumb, rather than rational calculation if it is to be minimally valid empirically. The expanding behavioural economics and psychology literature, largely based on experiments of another kind, supports the case for a broader view of how humans take decisions. In human reality

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disciplines, not just psychology and cognitive science, but also history, geography, information theory, evolutionary biology, complexity science, and political economy. Yet the immense interest in behavioural economics may turn out to be a red herring if we take seriously the insight from both biological markets theory and information theory, that context rather

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for extra care and did not deter lateness. In contrast to the lively interest in the psychology of decision making demonstrated by the popularity of behavioural economics, this line of criticism has drawn little response from economists. The reason is that so many of us have little professional interest in ethical questions

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of changing popular narratives,’ adding, ‘Narratives can be based on varying degrees of truth.’ Similarly, George Akerlof and Dennis Snower argue that neither conventional nor behavioural economics offers empirically valid general accounts of the way economies develop, whereas considering the role of narratives can account for the realisation of one among a

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—also assumed on both sides of the socialist calculation debate. There has been a lot of attention paid to the cognitive processes involved, yet even behavioural economics assumes there is something to be maximised or optimised, and some underlying ‘real’ preferences. But we do not always want to optimise an objective function

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. Perez, C., 2002, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, London: Elgar. Pesendorfer, W., 2006, ‘Behavioral Economics Comes of Age: A Review Essay on Advances in Behavioral Economics’, Journal of Economic Literature, 44 (3), 712–721. Petty, William, 1672, Essays in Political Arithmetick. Philippon, Thomas, 2019, The Great Reversal

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Basu, Kaushik, 159–60 Bateson, Gregory, 104 Baumol, W. J., 122, 124 BBC Reith Lectures, 77–78 BBC Trust, 83 Becker, Gary, 2, 92, 119 behavioural economics: aggregation and, 3, 40, 42, 71–72, 100–102, 106, 113, 122–23, 141, 176–77, 201–2; beliefs of tomorrow and, 22; bias and

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, 186, 188, 214; ultra-high frequency trading (HFT) and, 25–27 conservatism, 30 Consumer Price Index (CPI), 146–47, 172 consumers: bad choices and, 3; behavioural economics and, 22, 59–60, 92, 109; conspicuous consumption and, 42; digital economy and, 42, 137, 172–76, 181, 198, 200–206, 213; empirical work and

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, 169, 191–92; regulation and, 65; supply of, 32; twenty-first-century policy and, 191–92, 200–201; warranties on goods and, 105 empirical work: behavioural economics and, 117, 159; causality and, 2, 61, 94–96, 99; competition and, 181, 209; computers and, 2, 17, 52; consumers and, 3, 181; context and

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, Michael, 110, 149 Government Economic Service (GES), 53, 83–85 GPT, 169 Great Depression, 3, 10, 17, 20, 74, 191, 213 Great Financial Crisis (GFC): behavioural economics and, 51; consequences of, 1, 3, 11, 213; digital economy and, 113–14; dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models and, 31; forecasting, 30, 101, 112–13

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–39; time spent online, 176–78; transaction costs and, 168; Unipalm and, 133; World Wide Web and, 133, 195 Internet of Things (IOT), 198 interventions: behavioural economics and, 48, 63, 104, 106, 160, 208, 211; Coase on, 62; education and, 12; government, 15, 38, 48, 80, 82, 123, 125, 191, 194, 208

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, 188 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 130, 132, 164, 190 Ormerod, Paul, 106 Oscar awards, 108 Ostrom, Elinor, 63–64 outsider context: behavioural economics and, 88, 92–93, 100, 103–9; causality and, 94–96, 99–105; competition and, 98, 105; consumers and, 92, 96, 98, 100–102, 105

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, 209; sharing economy and, 142; social welfare and, 201 progress: algorithms and, 139, 157, 160–61; artificial intelligence (AI) and, 137–39, 154, 159–62; behavioural economics and, 136–37, 145, 154, 157–60; Boskin Commission and, 146–47; building back and, 163, 165; capitalism and, 143, 149; causality and, 137; central

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, 105, 109–10 rational choice theory, 33, 35, 47–48, 59, 91, 114, 119 rationality: algorithms and, 116, 118; artificial intelligence (AI) and, 116–18; behavioural economics and, 22, 35, 46–47, 59, 109, 117–19; common sense and, 78, 127; competition and, 117; computers and, 116–17; consumers and, 116; decision

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–5, 145, 206 Sen, Amartya, 64, 125, 128–29, 151 Sennheiser, 98 Sen-Stiglitz-Fitoussi Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance, 151 separation protocol: behavioural economics and, 119–20, 124; competition and, 120, 123–25; decision making and, 120; empirical work and, 119, 124, 128; free market and, 123–24; homo

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, Gordon, 33 Turner, Adair, 31–32 twenty-first-century policy: algorithms and, 184–85, 188, 195, 200; artificial intelligence (AI) and, 184, 186–87, 195; behavioural economics and, 186, 202, 207–8; bias and, 187, 209; capitalism and, 186, 190, 195; competition and, 182, 201–9; computers and, 183–84, 186, 188

Randomistas: How Radical Researchers Changed Our World

by Andrew Leigh  · 14 Sep 2018  · 340pp  · 94,464 words

across the globe. In 2010 the British government became the first to establish a so-called ‘Nudge Unit’, to bring the principles of psychology and behavioural economics into policymaking. The interventions were mostly low-cost – such as tweaking existing mailings – and were tested through randomised trials wherever possible. In some cases they

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this study is forthcoming.’: http://thirtymillionwords.org/tmw-initiative/. 56Steven D. Levitt, John A. List, Susanne Neckermann & Sally Sadoff, ‘The behavioralist goes to school: Leveraging behavioral economics to improve educational performance’, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, vol. 8, no. 4, 2016, pp. 183–219. 57For a discussion of the complexity challenge inherent

Virtual Competition

by Ariel Ezrachi and Maurice E. Stucke  · 30 Nov 2016

. Neoclassical economic thinking had simplifying assumptions on human behav ior, namely that market participants are rational, self-interested, and have willpower. But individuals, as the behavioral economics literature explores, are far more complex. Over the past twenty years, the economic literature has increasingly recognized and measured how (1) willpower is imperfect, (2

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Discrimination P ERFECT PRICE DISCRIMINATION may be unattainable. But “almost perfect” behavioral discrimination may be within reach. In the online world where Big Data meets behavioral economics, we are witnessing an emerging category of price discrimination—behavioral discrimination. Here firms harvest our personal data to identify which emotion (or bias) will prompt

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, companies will likely appeal to our emotional wants. As noted earlier, most of us are not rational, self-interested individuals with willpower. The field of behavioral economics, as one of its pioneers, Amos Tversky, noted, has quantified what every good advertiser and car salesman already knew.15 We have cognitive biases, which

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, reciprocity, and the illusion of scarcity play a powerful role in the persuasion game.17 One competition authority official told us in 2015 that the behavioral economics literature identifies over one hundred human biases linked to decision making, information processing, memory, and social interaction. Companies could surely identify a number of biases

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, feel cheated by price discrimination. They are deprived of a market price. To address this, firms can rely on framing effects when price discriminating. The behavioral economics literature suggests that “framing effects” (how the issue is worded or framed) do matter.50 Here the price discrimination is framed not as consumers paying

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this? One must examine price discrimination beyond the neoclassical economic analysis, which assumes that we are self-interested (greedy) profit maximizers, to the frontiers of behavioral economics, which views price discrimination through the prism of fairness and equality. 122 Behavioral Discrimination First, price discrimination may be accepted where its primary purpose is

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and the Meaning of the ‘Rule of Reason’ in Restraint of Trade Analysis,” Research in Law and Economics 15 (1992): 1, 4. 39. Adam Candeub, “Behavioral Economics, Internet Search, and Antitrust,” MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-03 (2014), http://ssrn.com/abstract =2414179. 40. Judy Wajcman, Pressed for Time: The

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-transparency-accountability-report-federal-trade -commission-may-2014/140527databrokerreport.pdf. 48. Ibid. 49. Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow. 50. Richard Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (New York: W. W. Norton, 2015), chap. 7. 51. G. B. Northcraft and M. A. Neale, “Experts, Amateurs, and Real Estate: An Anchoring-and-Adjustment

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-tversky-expert-on-decision-making-is-dead-at-59.html. 16. Ned Welch, “A Marketer’s Guide to Behavioral Economics,” McKinsey Quarterly, February 2010, http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/marketing _ sales/a _marketers _ guide _to_behavioral _economics. 17. Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (New York: HarperBusiness, 2007). 18. Dan Ariely, Predictably

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Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 2. 19. Welch, “A Marketer’s Guide to Behavioral Economics”; Sheryl E. Kimes, Robert Phillips, and Lisabet Summa, “Pricing in Restaurants,” in The Oxford Handbook of Pricing Management, A. Özer and Robert Phillips, eds. (Oxford

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293 52. Daniel Kahneman, Jack L. Knetsch, and Richard H. Thaler, “Fairness as a Constraint on Profit Seeking: Entitlements in the Market,” in Advances in Behavioral Economics, Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin, eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, December 28, 2003), 252, 257. 53. Organisation for Economic Co-operation

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), 8, http://www.oecd.org/competition /abuse/35910977.pdf. 54. Colin F. Camerer, “Prospect Theory in the Wild: Evidence from the Field,” in Advances in Behavioral Economics, Colin F. Camerer, George Loewenstein, and Matthew Rabin, eds. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, December 28, 2003): 148, 152 (many consumers “dislike price increases more

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cut back purchases more when prices rise compared with the extra amount they buy when prices fall”); Daniel Kahneman, “Maps of Bounded Rationality: Psychology for Behavioral Economics,” American Economic Review 93 (December 2003): 1449, 1458. 55. James Surowiecki, “In Praise of Efficient Gouging,” MIT Technology Review (August 19, 2004), http://www.technologyreview

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on E-Commerce Web Sites.” 63. Chisholm, Why “Sleepers” Can’t Always Be Left to “Sleep.” 64. “David Currie speaks about the CMA experience of behavioural economics,” April 20, 2015. Available on the CMA website: https://www.gov.uk /government/speeches/david-currie-speaks-about-the-cma-experience-of

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-behavioural-economics. 12 • Behavioral Discrimination: Economic and Social Perspectives 1. Michael Eisen, “Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 Book about Flies,” It Is NOT Junk (April 22,

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feedback loop and private data, 236–238; privacy concerns and, 129–130, 227; social acceptance and, 121–122, 129, 130, 303n60; wealth inequality and, 241 Behavioral economics, 97–98, 105 Behavioral experiments, intermediaries and, 42–44 Benchmark interest rates/exchange rates, Messenger collusion scenario and, 40, 269nn7,9 Biases, exploiting to increase

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common sense, but with theories of perception, reasoning, categorization, decision-making and more, which have been central to psychology, cognitive science, artificial intelligence, linguistics and behavioural economics. So much of our most sophisticated thinking in these disciplines has involved extending, modifying and elaborating our intuitive conception of our minds – an intuitive conception

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the interaction of these ‘super-rational’ agents. This programme, for all its mathematical elegance, has also foundered. For one thing, countless experiments in psychology and behavioural economics have shown just how spectacularly ill-defined and self-contradictory our beliefs and preferences are. For another, the confusion of individual decision-makers (their exuberant

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. Choosing and rejecting the same thing seems peculiar. But it is hardly an isolated incident. Indeed, entire fields of research, including Judgement and Decision-Making, Behavioural Economics, and large areas of Social Cognition have found countless examples of such inconsistencies.10 Ask the same question, probe the same attitude, or present the

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. Kahneman and A. Tversky, Choices, Values, and Frames (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000); C. F. Camerer, G. Loewenstein and M. Rabin (eds), Advances in Behavioral Economics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011); Z. Kunda, Social Cognition: Making Sense of People (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). 11 P. J. Schoemaker (1990), ‘Are

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, just eleven years ago, I organised a session at the American Economics Association annual meeting that had the cheeky title: ‘Memos to the Council of Behavioral Economic Advisers’. None of the participants, including me, ever thought we would see the day that any government institution vaguely resembling such an entity would exist

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psychology, and applied them in an accessible form to problems that faced economists and lawmakers. Second, they blended into these existing literatures new ideas from ‘behavioural economics’, including a more formal recognition of the widespread power of defaults and ‘choice architecture’ – or the way in which choices are presented to people.1

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both bigger impacts and lower burdens. A key tool for achieving this improvement in the cost-effectiveness of regulation was to use the lessons of behavioural economics and insight. An everyday example that Cass cited was the food pyramid. This was a US Department of Agriculture graphic, first issued in 1992, intended

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. But of particular relevance here, echoing the 2003 PMSU review, Kahneman and others’ work, and the Downing Street Cialdini session, was one particular recommendation: Embrace behavioural economics Behavioural economics provides a powerful new set of tools for policymakers and citizens to address the challenges of today and improve the quality of our lives. But

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even though many of the key insights are twenty to thirty years old, policymakers have been slow to apply them … The application of behavioural economics could offer substantial gains in relation to the environment, crime, pro-social behaviour, education, welfare and health. (The Hidden Wealth of Nations, 2009, here.) Drawing

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Richard Thaler’s inner Chicago economist and US instincts feel very uncomfortable: was it really the primary role of government to ‘change’ people’s behaviour? Behavioural Economics Team was also mooted, but was a little too narrow in its disciplinary base (and would have made Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist, despair). Behavioural Science

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shared by Richard Thaler. The deputy director who had been chosen by the civil service to lead the team didn’t really know much about behavioural economics or psychology. This is not unusual for the British civil service, which has a long tradition of putting people in charge of things that they

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USA, behaviourally informed policies were quietly being adapted on an increasingly large scale, through Cass’s skillful hands. But even there, the idea of applying behavioural economics to policy continued to encounter some abrasive politics in public. Applying a better model of human behaviour to policy was a nice idea, but the

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weekly shop at out-of-town superstores. A third issue, fundamental to this book, is that we’re not ‘econs’. Viewed through the lens of behavioural economics, the assumption that we do what makes us happy, looks very shaky. If we’re interested in well-being, we’d better measure it directly

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I know to be shared by many others. For a recent and accessible overview of his work, see Thaler, R. (2015), Misbehaving: the Making of Behavioural Economics. Norton & Co. 2 Options for a New Britain (2010) and its predecessor, Options for Britain (1996); three ‘Strategic Audits’ conducted by the PMSU (2002, 2005

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Osterloh, M. (eds) (2002), Successful Management by Motivation: Balancing Intrinsic and Extrinsic Incentives. 12 Roberto, C. A., and Kawachi, I. (2014), ‘Use of psychology and behavioral economics to promote healthy eating’, Am J Prev Med., 47(6): 832–7. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2014.08.002. 13 Van Kleef, E. et

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anti-smoking campaign group ASH, he got to see some pretty strong examples of such predatory behaviour. 5 Thaler, R., (2015) Misbehaving: the Making of Behavioral Economics. Norton &Co; Soman, D., (2015) The Last Mile: Creating Social and Economic Value from Behavioural Insights. Rotman–UTP Publishing. 6 Sunstein, C. (2014), Why Nudge

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has thrived: in economic models. The species persists because it has made the modelling of complex human decisions possible for economists. Lately, the contribution of behavioural economics and the recognition that the differences between humans, households and businesses are important has improved these models immensely. Together, these developments are allowing us to

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term behavioural science describes all of the disciplines that examine how people think, feel and act. It’s a long list: cognitive and social psychology, behavioural economics, behaviour change theory, evolutionary biology, anthropology, sociology, human geography, organizational psychology, semiotics and design thinking. Marketing, when practised rigorously, is an application of behavioural science

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analytical models, creative frameworks or rigorous trials. Amos Tversky – the pioneering economist who, with his colleague Daniel Kahneman, created much of the theory that underpins behavioural economics – explained that they ‘merely examined, in a scientific way, things about behaviour that were already known to advertisers and used-car salesmen’.26 Their work

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is still a specialist function, involving dedicated in-house teams and external consultancies with practitioners that have usually specialized in psychology, the social sciences or behavioural economics. We will show how continued investment and judicious recruitment of talented specialists is essential, but also how organizational culture change is a vital ingredient. We

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-second-century transport challenges and beyond. Further reading Government Communications Service. 2020. Strategic communications: a behavioural approach. Report, GCS. Metcalfe, R., and Dolan, P. 2012. Behavioural economics and its implications for transport. Journal of Transport Geography 24, 503–511. Niblett, M., and Beuret, K. (eds). 2021. Why Travel? Understanding Our Need to

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railway. Report, National Rail (https://bigplanbigchanges.co.uk/files/docs/Changing_Track.pdf). Thaler, R. H., and Ganser, L. J. 2015. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. New York: W. W. Norton. * * * 8 Giving people discounts for things they’d pay full price for anyway. 9 Office of Rail and Road. 2017

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that 86% of people across twenty-eight countries wanted significant change to make the world a fairer and more sustainable place.17 Until recently, the behavioural economics literature looked quite underpowered, as it typically concentrated on the behaviour of individuals, examining social norms only to the extent they affect individuals rather than

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individual coin toss. The concept of expected value is thus not a good arbiter for rational behavior in the way it is normally presented in Behavioral Economics and Finance experiments – why, then, is it used? If you’ve read this far into this book, you won’t be surprised to learn that

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with Oskar Morgenstern resulted in whole fields of economic theory being developed by later researchers – including Game Theory, much of neoclassical finance theory, and ultimately Behavioral Economics – but one key thing he actually wanted to achieve never happened: he wanted to eliminate indifference curves and immeasurable utility from economics. He regarded these

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a paradox at all, but a typical case of economists misreading their own literature. I have a similar attitude to all other ‘paradoxes’ in the behavioral economics literature. However, this doesn’t mean that this entire literature is a waste of time, because the exercises do point out the difference between an

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