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Reader Brandon asks: Assuming you have watched the documentary by now, do you care to offer any sort of critique/promotion of the movie?
(For context, I had plugged the Freakonomics movie earlier this weekend.)
Ask and you shall receive…to be precise, I ended up watching the movie with my best friend (and a giant orange cat) on [...]
Tags: Books · Incentives · Reader Questions · Uncategorizable
A number of readers emailed, tweeted, sent carrier pigeons, etc. to ask what I had to say regarding a recent NYT op-ed piece by George Loewenstein and Peter Ubel that discusses the limitations of using behavioral economics to drive policy. The authors summarize their central thesis as follows:
But the field has its limits. As [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Policy · Reader Questions
Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the exact wording of the question, but it’s what everyone seems to be asking nowadays…reader Seth writes:
I had a topic for you to address that I thought might be good for someone with a behavioral econ background. Tonight is Stephen Strasburg’s MLB debut (#1 uber prospect) for the Nationals. The [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Buyer Beware · Reader Questions · Sports
A reader writes:
I’m a grad student at Georgetown University, where I’m in the dual masters in public policy/masters in economics program. As part of that program, I took the first year PhD sequence in the econ department. We used the usual texts for micro, macro, and metrics, but we didn’t really talk about behavioral stuff. [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Reader Questions
I’ve gotten a few requests for comment on the whole “airlines now charging customers to breathe on their airplanes” issue, so I will give a bit of an economist’s take on the matter here.
First, a recap for those of you who, unlike me, haven’t been watching the airline industry with baited breath to see what [...]
Tags: Behavioral Econ · Buyer Beware · Decision Making · Policy · Reader Questions
