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Dandelion Salad By Noam Chomsky ICH 03/16/08 ???ZNet??? Adapted from a Z Media Institute talk, June 2007 January, 01 2008 You all know, of course, there was an election ?? what is called ???an election??? in the United States ?? last November. There was really one issue in the election, what to do about U.S. forces in Iraq and there was, by U.S. standards, an overwhelming vote calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces on a firm timetable. As few people know, a couple of months earlier there were e
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As human beings, we like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, capable of overcoming our emotional impulses. Yet it turns out that we not only tend to act irrationally, but we do so in a predictable fashion. In the new book ???Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions,??? Dan Ariely, a professor at MIT, offers an empirical approach to reveal the underlying logic to our illogic. In a recent New Yorker article, he states, ???our irrational behaviors
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I have felt frustrated that I haven't been able to blog more this week, and I am going to give myself a short break from the Mojo Mom blog. If my schedule allows, I'll be back next week. I need to set aside a few days for planning and get my priorities in order for the rest of March and April. I have a new project cooking, which I will tell you about soon. I also have important things on my to-do list that have not gotten done yet, as well as requests from other people for work that they want m
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While we are on the topic of books, another brand-new book that deserves your attention is titled "Predictably Irrational." Written by MIT behavioral ...
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Only then can you move forward, says Dan Ariely in his new book Predictably Irrational. Taking potshots at our tendency of keeping options open to minimise ...
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According to Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and best-selling author of "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Force That Shape Our Decisions,??? consumer ...
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Greener Than Thou is our report on San Francisco??s obsession with all things green, giving credit where credit is due and calling bullshit when the need arises. Feeling morally superior on the green front? Testify! Enter a new sociological phenomenon: The Prius Conundrum. Why are people willing to slap down the cash for a Prius rather than spend the same on energy-efficient renovations to their homes? Especially when a good old-fashioned greening would ultimately save about seven times the amo
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IF YOU ask me, the real Prius condundrum is how exactly one pluralises the word Prius. It's remarkable to see the lengths to which journalists will go in order to avoid referring to more than one of the trendy little hybrids. That's not the condundrum Felix Salmon has in mind today in responding to Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, who writes:Why do we buy a Toyota Prius but do not take as much care to make our homes more efficient? Mr Salmon's response is a good one. In short, resid
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Once again there are interesting new posts to explore at the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,1 one or another of which may be exactly the thing to pique the interest of the sophisticated reader - like you, for example.2 Life with fewer market norms and more social norms would be more satisfying, creative, fulfilling and fun Quote from Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, reviewed in New York Times ???Obviously, this sly and lucid book is not about your grandfather??s dismal science.
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IF YOU ask me, the real Prius condundrum is how exactly one pluralises the word Prius. It's remarkable to see the lengths to which journalists will go in order to avoid referring to more than one of the trendy little hybrids. That's not the condundrum Felix Salmon has in mind today in responding to Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, who writes:Why do we buy a Toyota Prius but do not take as much care to make our homes more efficient? Mr Salmon's response is a good one. In short, resid
www.economist.com
The Bear Facts. Portfolio.com The ???terrifying speed??? of Bear Stearns?? collapse has stunned investors. The Atlantic ???Bear Stearns, as we know it, is gone and never to return.??? Information Arbitrage Are we now ???Bailout Nation???? NYTimes.com The Fed is afraid of the systemic risks of a Bear Stearns failure. Real Time Economics, Market Movers ???Couldn??t we set things up so that the criteria by which investors decide where to put their money map more closely to what we would recogniz
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Dan Ariely was Bob Brinker??s guest on Money Talk last weekend.? Dr. Dan, as Brinker called him, is a professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT??s Sloan School of Management.??? ?Dr Dan was pushing his new book Predictably Irrational.?I am going to give a rough summary of one of Dr. Dan??s experiments for the book that I found interesting.?? He gave subjects a simple math test?where the subjects would be able to able to figure out the correct answers but he made sure that the subjects did not have
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Emonomics: PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely DAVID BERREBY, 3/16/08, NY Times Book Review To see how arousal alters sexual attitudes, for example, Ariely and his colleagues asked young men to answer a questionnaire ?? then asked them to answer it again, only this time while indulging in Internet pornography on a laptop wrapped in Saran Wrap. In that state, their answers to questions about sexual tastes,, violence and condom use were far less re
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But forecasters&39 concerns should be not whether human response is rational or irrational, only that it is observable and systematic. ...
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Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely. 280 pages. 25.95 ??16.99, Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. ...
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The disgraced former NY governor is not alone, writes "Ruth Henderson," a former booking agent for high-priced Manhattan call girls. By "Ruth Henderson" So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned because the FBI discovered he was sleeping with expensive call girls. America, predictably, went crazy. A man cheated on his wife! Quick, call all the pop psychologists and famous feminist authors, and book them for the morning talk shows! And I, a former booking agent at one of New York??s most excl
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Learn more about Dan Ariely&39s quirky explorations of human behavior -- and put yourself to one of his tests -- at www.predictably irrational.com. ...
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We're always keeping an eye out for bold new books, so it's apropos to note GSB Professor Bob Sutton's highly favorable blog review of Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. According to Sutton, the book presents study after study that shows why we waste money and underestimate risks, and reveals how to overcome or avoid these biases, concluding "This is one of those books that is on par with the Heath Brothers' Made to Stick, Robert Cialdini's Influence, an
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Via Glenn Greenwald, and interesting: So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned because the FBI discovered he was sleeping with expensive call girls. America, predictably, went crazy. A man cheated on his wife! Quick, call all the pop psychologists and famous feminist authors, and book them for the morning talk shows! And I, a former booking agent at one of New York??s most exclusive escort agencies, just rolled my eyes. Remember that scene from Casablanca, when Captain Renault declares tha
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Mr "howtolive" reports: On Friday I had the opportunity to hear author Dan Ariely speak. Dan is an MIT professor on tour to promote his new book, Predictably Irrational. ... The example Dan gave was an experiment in which people had the ability to cheat and claim they deserved more money than they actually did. When the payoff was in cash, people only cheated a little, but when the payoff was in tokens which could be immediately redeemed for cash, people cheated a lot more. Here is a nice bo
www.overcomingbias.com
Today's topic is: our brains, understanding how they work, and living with the consequences of that knowledge. Brain Enhancement: Right or Wrong? NYT: amazing gray areas we're getting into. Is it okay for a scientist to take brain-enhancing drugs? Compare with Wired News's write-up of Quinn Norton's ETech talk on the subject of how new bio technology will make us confront difficult questions around what it means to be human. How To Think Ed Boyden's blog: Ten rules that were originally t
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Homo Economicus? Thursday, March 13th, 2008 3:22 pm Contributed by: pmd8 In ???What was I thinking???? Elizabeth Kolbert reviews a new book by MIT economist Dan Ariely, ???Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions??? Harper, 2008. Kolbert begins her piece by describing a seemly irrational act of purchasing an additional book from Amazon simply to get free shipping. Throughout her review, she describes the history of behavioral economics ?? a branch of economics that began
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Emonomics: PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely DAVID BERREBY, 3/16/08, NY Times Book Review To see how arousal alters sexual attitudes, for example, Ariely and his colleagues asked young men to answer a questionnaire ?? then asked them to answer it again, only this time while indulging in Internet pornography on a laptop wrapped in Saran Wrap. In that state, their answers to questions about sexual tastes,, violence and condom use were far less re
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Predictably / Irrational ???Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.??? IFC signs pact with devil Blockbuster ???Friends Don??t Let Friends Go To Blockbuster.??? HT: CVillain Strange Maps Many maps, many points of view. HT paperpools reconsidering late-period Bowie The Butter Room ???Bowie not only never lost his ???cool,?? but even upped the ante in his later years??? Why We Shop: Getting a Grip on Consumerism ??? Get Rich Slowly ???Shopper, know thyself!??? mental_flo
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Among them, Dan Ariely&39s "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions" stands out for its intelligence, curiosity and wit. ...
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Notes on ???Predictably Irrational??? by Dan Ariely Toby Segaran&39s blog: fascinating list of ways in which we are irrational. The book looks interesting for ...
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... 2008 Behavioral economists are a fun- loving bunch, to judge from the intriguing new book &39&39Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our ...
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Amy Sullivan's The Party Faithful: How and Why the Democrats are Closing the God Gap came out a little less than a month ago, and I haven't seen it discussed much on the blogs. Of course, it's not that you can't find anything on the book: Beliefnet has given her a page to talk about her argument, the NYT gave the book a prominent and sympathetic review along with a similar new book by E.J. Dionne, it's been excerpted in Sojourners magazine, and Salon ran a long interview with her. But still, I'd
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The TED talk by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor gets a very high rating from Presentation Zen. Don't miss it! What do MIT MBA students' social security numbers have to do with how much they would be willing to pay for a bottle of 1998 Cotes du Rhone? Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, explains. Hat tip: via Mark Thoma. Are you happy? Sue Halpern reviews five books on happiness research for NYRB. Arati on why she is in love with her hands. And here's a bonus: Peter Griffin: Por
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Because that&39s just how we are and we&39d best get used to it, argues Dan Ariely in Predictably Irrational. In this exclusive extract, he explains the cost of ...
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We Own The World By Noam Chomsky
Dandelion Salad By Noam Chomsky ICH 03/16/08 ???ZNet??? Adapted from a Z Media Institute talk, June 2007 January, 01 2008 You all know, of course, there was an election ?? what is called ???an election??? in the United States ?? last November. There was really one issue in the election, what to do about U.S. forces in Iraq and there was, by U.S. standards, an overwhelming vote calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces on a firm timetable. As few people know, a couple of months earlier there were e
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The Rationale Behind our Irrational Ways
As human beings, we like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, capable of overcoming our emotional impulses. Yet it turns out that we not only tend to act irrationally, but we do so in a predictable fashion. In the new book ???Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions,??? Dan Ariely, a professor at MIT, offers an empirical approach to reveal the underlying logic to our illogic. In a recent New Yorker article, he states, ???our irrational behaviors
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Mojo Mom takes a break to regroup
I have felt frustrated that I haven't been able to blog more this week, and I am going to give myself a short break from the Mojo Mom blog. If my schedule allows, I'll be back next week. I need to set aside a few days for planning and get my priorities in order for the rest of March and April. I have a new project cooking, which I will tell you about soon. I also have important things on my to-do list that have not gotten done yet, as well as requests from other people for work that they want m
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Predictably Irrational. - Seattle Post Intelligencer
While we are on the topic of books, another brand-new book that deserves your attention is titled "Predictably Irrational." Written by MIT behavioral ...
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Get irrational don&39t keep options open - Economic Times
Only then can you move forward, says Dan Ariely in his new book Predictably Irrational. Taking potshots at our tendency of keeping options open to minimise ...
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Executives Learn that Counting on Irrational Buying Behavior Can ... - WELT ONLINE
According to Dan Ariely, behavioral economist and best-selling author of "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Force That Shape Our Decisions,??? consumer ...
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Greener Than Thou: The Prius Conundrum
Greener Than Thou is our report on San Francisco??s obsession with all things green, giving credit where credit is due and calling bullshit when the need arises. Feeling morally superior on the green front? Testify! Enter a new sociological phenomenon: The Prius Conundrum. Why are people willing to slap down the cash for a Prius rather than spend the same on energy-efficient renovations to their homes? Especially when a good old-fashioned greening would ultimately save about seven times the amo
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The Prius conundrum
IF YOU ask me, the real Prius condundrum is how exactly one pluralises the word Prius. It's remarkable to see the lengths to which journalists will go in order to avoid referring to more than one of the trendy little hybrids. That's not the condundrum Felix Salmon has in mind today in responding to Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, who writes:Why do we buy a Toyota Prius but do not take as much care to make our homes more efficient? Mr Salmon's response is a good one. In short, resid
www.economist.com
Sunday Is Good Clean Wholesome Fun Day
Once again there are interesting new posts to explore at the Good Clean Wholesome Fun tumblelog,1 one or another of which may be exactly the thing to pique the interest of the sophisticated reader - like you, for example.2 Life with fewer market norms and more social norms would be more satisfying, creative, fulfilling and fun Quote from Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, reviewed in New York Times ???Obviously, this sly and lucid book is not about your grandfather??s dismal science.
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The Prius conundrum
IF YOU ask me, the real Prius condundrum is how exactly one pluralises the word Prius. It's remarkable to see the lengths to which journalists will go in order to avoid referring to more than one of the trendy little hybrids. That's not the condundrum Felix Salmon has in mind today in responding to Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, who writes:Why do we buy a Toyota Prius but do not take as much care to make our homes more efficient? Mr Salmon's response is a good one. In short, resid
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Sunday links: systemic risks
The Bear Facts. Portfolio.com The ???terrifying speed??? of Bear Stearns?? collapse has stunned investors. The Atlantic ???Bear Stearns, as we know it, is gone and never to return.??? Information Arbitrage Are we now ???Bailout Nation???? NYTimes.com The Fed is afraid of the systemic risks of a Bear Stearns failure. Real Time Economics, Market Movers ???Couldn??t we set things up so that the criteria by which investors decide where to put their money map more closely to what we would recogniz
abnormalreturns.com
Dr. Dan??s Experiment
Dan Ariely was Bob Brinker??s guest on Money Talk last weekend.? Dr. Dan, as Brinker called him, is a professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT??s Sloan School of Management.??? ?Dr Dan was pushing his new book Predictably Irrational.?I am going to give a rough summary of one of Dr. Dan??s experiments for the book that I found interesting.?? He gave subjects a simple math test?where the subjects would be able to able to figure out the correct answers but he made sure that the subjects did not have
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IF YOU MEET THE HOMO ECONOMICUS IN THE ROAD KILL HIM:
Emonomics: PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely DAVID BERREBY, 3/16/08, NY Times Book Review To see how arousal alters sexual attitudes, for example, Ariely and his colleagues asked young men to answer a questionnaire ?? then asked them to answer it again, only this time while indulging in Internet pornography on a laptop wrapped in Saran Wrap. In that state, their answers to questions about sexual tastes,, violence and condom use were far less re
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Predictably Irrational - Conde Nast Portfolio
But forecasters&39 concerns should be not whether human response is rational or irrational, only that it is observable and systematic. ...
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David Berreby on Dan Ariely&39s &39Predictably Irrational&39 - International Herald Tribune
Predictably Irrational The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely. 280 pages. 25.95 ??16.99, Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. ...
www.iht.com
I've Seen My Share of Spitzers: The View From an Escort Service
The disgraced former NY governor is not alone, writes "Ruth Henderson," a former booking agent for high-priced Manhattan call girls. By "Ruth Henderson" So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned because the FBI discovered he was sleeping with expensive call girls. America, predictably, went crazy. A man cheated on his wife! Quick, call all the pop psychologists and famous feminist authors, and book them for the morning talk shows! And I, a former booking agent at one of New York??s most excl
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Irrational, but oh, so predictable - News & Observer
Learn more about Dan Ariely&39s quirky explorations of human behavior -- and put yourself to one of his tests -- at www.predictably irrational.com. ...
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Predictably Profitable
We're always keeping an eye out for bold new books, so it's apropos to note GSB Professor Bob Sutton's highly favorable blog review of Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. According to Sutton, the book presents study after study that shows why we waste money and underestimate risks, and reveals how to overcome or avoid these biases, concluding "This is one of those books that is on par with the Heath Brothers' Made to Stick, Robert Cialdini's Influence, an
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A sex worker comments on the Spitzer affair
Via Glenn Greenwald, and interesting: So New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned because the FBI discovered he was sleeping with expensive call girls. America, predictably, went crazy. A man cheated on his wife! Quick, call all the pop psychologists and famous feminist authors, and book them for the morning talk shows! And I, a former booking agent at one of New York??s most exclusive escort agencies, just rolled my eyes. Remember that scene from Casablanca, when Captain Renault declares tha
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They're Only Tokens
Mr "howtolive" reports: On Friday I had the opportunity to hear author Dan Ariely speak. Dan is an MIT professor on tour to promote his new book, Predictably Irrational. ... The example Dan gave was an experiment in which people had the ability to cheat and claim they deserved more money than they actually did. When the payoff was in cash, people only cheated a little, but when the payoff was in tokens which could be immediately redeemed for cash, people cheated a lot more. Here is a nice bo
www.overcomingbias.com
Radar Roundup: Brains
Today's topic is: our brains, understanding how they work, and living with the consequences of that knowledge. Brain Enhancement: Right or Wrong? NYT: amazing gray areas we're getting into. Is it okay for a scientist to take brain-enhancing drugs? Compare with Wired News's write-up of Quinn Norton's ETech talk on the subject of how new bio technology will make us confront difficult questions around what it means to be human. How To Think Ed Boyden's blog: Ten rules that were originally t
radar.oreilly.com
Homo Economicus?
Homo Economicus? Thursday, March 13th, 2008 3:22 pm Contributed by: pmd8 In ???What was I thinking???? Elizabeth Kolbert reviews a new book by MIT economist Dan Ariely, ???Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions??? Harper, 2008. Kolbert begins her piece by describing a seemly irrational act of purchasing an additional book from Amazon simply to get free shipping. Throughout her review, she describes the history of behavioral economics ?? a branch of economics that began
expertvoices.nsdl.org
IF YOU MEET THE HOMO ECONOMICUS IN THE ROAD KILL HIM:
Emonomics: PREDICTABLY IRRATIONAL: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. By Dan Ariely DAVID BERREBY, 3/16/08, NY Times Book Review To see how arousal alters sexual attitudes, for example, Ariely and his colleagues asked young men to answer a questionnaire ?? then asked them to answer it again, only this time while indulging in Internet pornography on a laptop wrapped in Saran Wrap. In that state, their answers to questions about sexual tastes,, violence and condom use were far less re
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Predictably / Irrational ???Ariely unmasks the subtle but powerful tricks that our minds play on us.??? IFC signs pact with devil Blockbuster ???Friends Don??t Let Friends Go To Blockbuster.??? HT: CVillain Strange Maps Many maps, many points of view. HT paperpools reconsidering late-period Bowie The Butter Room ???Bowie not only never lost his ???cool,?? but even upped the ante in his later years??? Why We Shop: Getting a Grip on Consumerism ??? Get Rich Slowly ???Shopper, know thyself!??? mental_flo
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&39Predictably Irrational&39 - Newsweek
Among them, Dan Ariely&39s "Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions" stands out for its intelligence, curiosity and wit. ...
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Radar Roundup: Brains - O&39Reilly Radar
Notes on ???Predictably Irrational??? by Dan Ariely Toby Segaran&39s blog: fascinating list of ways in which we are irrational. The book looks interesting for ...
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Porn, beer and Bible share MIT economist&39s toolbox - Allentown Morning Call
... 2008 Behavioral economists are a fun- loving bunch, to judge from the intriguing new book &39&39Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our ...
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Amy Sullivan's Party Faithful
Amy Sullivan's The Party Faithful: How and Why the Democrats are Closing the God Gap came out a little less than a month ago, and I haven't seen it discussed much on the blogs. Of course, it's not that you can't find anything on the book: Beliefnet has given her a page to talk about her argument, the NYT gave the book a prominent and sympathetic review along with a similar new book by E.J. Dionne, it's been excerpted in Sojourners magazine, and Salon ran a long interview with her. But still, I'd
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Right brain magic, price of wine, happiness, loving one's hands
The TED talk by neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor gets a very high rating from Presentation Zen. Don't miss it! What do MIT MBA students' social security numbers have to do with how much they would be willing to pay for a bottle of 1998 Cotes du Rhone? Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, explains. Hat tip: via Mark Thoma. Are you happy? Sue Halpern reviews five books on happiness research for NYRB. Arati on why she is in love with her hands. And here's a bonus: Peter Griffin: Por
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Accounting for nothing - Guardian
Because that&39s just how we are and we&39d best get used to it, argues Dan Ariely in Predictably Irrational. In this exclusive extract, he explains the cost of ...
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