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- Irrational Economics
- Irrational EconomicsPredictably Irrational is phenomenalI stumbled across Dan's book a few weeks ago and was fascinated by it. It's a phenomenal look at the ways and reasons that competent intelligent people do insensible things.If you get a chance, pick it up. The lessons involved aren't just about economics, but cover...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-21
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- Irrational Economics
- Economists aren't rational, because they assume people are. It's a flaw that's become obvious in economics, and opened the door to a more reasoned approach, based on experiments, not theories that try to match data. One of the economists leading this wave is Dan Ariely, a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-20
- Make Customers Happy: Charge Them More
- Okay, I'm being puckish -- anyone in business knows that customers constantly argue for a better deal. But in at least some contexts, like buying wine, people feel better about what they buy if it costs more. That's the gist of what's called the price-placebo effect, reported...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- It's time for irrational exuberance.
- Apr 23, 2003 (Marketing - ABIX via COMTEX) Princeton University psychologists Daniel Kahneman has rewritten the economics ideal of the "rational" customer. Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics for his consumer behaviour studies. He confirmed that people become repeat customers when they...
- Research articles 2003-04-24
- How To Think Like Warren Buffett
- Wouldn't we all like to make business decisions that work as well as the world's richest man's? A friendly reader noted my recent post on Irrational Economics and flagged a Marc Andreessen's discussion of a speech by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's right-hand man. The speech is The...
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Richmond Fed Publication Looks at the Economics of Politics
- Why do pluralities commonly support policies that run contrary to the advice of economists? For several decades, public choice theory has provided the leading explanation: Voters are rationally ignorant, with special interests largely controlling the democratic process. But now, an economist at George Mason University has turned that...
- Research articles 2007-10-04
- Energy Storage Opportunities vs. Irrational Expectations
- John Petersen submits: Last week, Mark Solheim of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine,posted an article on Seeking Alpha that really helped clarify the economic issues I’ve been writing about for several weeks. His article, backed up by the analytical strengths of the Kiplinger organization, noted that most HEVs offer limited economic...
- External links 2008-09-15
- Countrywide Financial Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Paul Miller from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. Please go ahead. Paul Miller - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Thank you very much. Angelo, you've been through a lot of these different cycles out there and this doesn't seems to be...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- Can Americans Stop Spending?
- Get over that image of Americans as debt-ridden consumption addicts. The Great Recession will teach us to find better things to do with the time and money we have left — at least for now. Right now, as we lick our financial and career wounds and poke our 401k...
- Articles 2009-06-25
- Albemarle Corp. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from the line of P.J. Juvekar from Citi please proceed. P.J. Juvekar - Citigroup Yes, Hi good morning. Richard J. Diemer, Jr. - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Hi good morning P.J. ...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- Stimulate Your Mind, If Not the Economy
- Want the answers to today's business gloom and uncertainty? Look no further than some end-of-year book lists. BNET's list vote here through Thursday looks poised to feature plenty of books with answers, and two prominent lists that came out late last week do, too. The New York...
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- Free Finance Lessons from Yale's Shiller
- You may be forgiven for no longer trusting entirely to the financial experts. You may want to find out for yourself how the markets work, even if you don't work in the sector. If so, who better to teach you finance than "one of the world's outstanding economic thinkers", Yale's...
- Blog posts 2008-10-22
- Weaving a security blanket against financial hazards.
- Jun 17, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) An eminent economics professor in the US is proposing that the world of finance should be democratised. In March 2000, Robert Shiller published his book "Irrational Exuberance" about the stock market bubble. In June 2003,...
- Research articles 2003-06-17
- Thinking ahead of market irrationality.
- Aug 26, 2001 The Canberra Times ABIX via COMTEX -- Investors are demanding explanations for the US technology stock crash, which caused them such heavy losses. ABN Amro said the question related to the human psyche, and the drives which lead people to investment...
- Research articles 2001-08-29
- Risky behaviour.
- Dec 05, 2002 (Far Eastern Economic Review - ABIX via COMTEX) Daniel Kahneman, psychology professor at Princeton University, won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2002. His theory of irrational behaviour of investors has been hailed as having great explanatory power. Several funds have...
- Research articles 2002-12-05
- No rush on interest rates.(Moneywise)(Brief Article)
- Borrowers can slide a little longer before they lock in fixed interest rates, advises Vince Malanga, president of LaSalle Economics. "We're in the fourth year of an adjustment from that period of irrational exuberance, but recovery will take longer than many expect," the former New York...
- Research articles 2003-02-01
- CBPP to Hold Conference Call Briefings on President's Private Accounts Proposal
- News Advisory: WHAT: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Conference Call Briefings -- Robert Shiller Presents New Research on How People Would Fare Under the President's Private Accounts Proposal WHEN: Tuesday, March 22 at 1 p.m. ET & Thursday, March 24 at 2 p.m. ET WHO: Robert Shiller, professor of...
- Research articles 2005-03-21
- Common-sense economist
- Tedford's role fits the results-oriented culture at Stephens. After all, it's difficult to imagine Warren Stephens employing someone to sit in an office and do nothing but ponder what Lord Keynes called "the dismal science."Still, there's evidence that Tedford's dabblings in economics pay off. In the 1970s he called the...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- B-School Profs on Pay Cuts, Social Responsibility and...Basketball?
- This week, we take a look at blogs written by business school professors. Your mind is playing tricks on you again -- Dan Ariely, the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University, celebrated the first anniversary of his book, "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden...
- Blog posts 2009-03-02
- Bad Financial News: How to Tell Your Kids
- In these tough times, it's hard to know what's worse: getting bad financial news or having to bring that news to your kids. Here's how to make it a little easier. ...
- Articles 2009-06-17
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