Daniel Kahneman
Foreign languages and thinking: Oprima dos for better cognition
A study finds that subjects make more rational choices when tested in a foreign language(89)
Happiness: No longer the dismal science?
Some economists say they have discovered the science of happiness(157)
Quick study: Daniel Kahneman on economic decision-making: Can we ever trust instinct?
Individual trading is hazardous to people’s wealth(36)
Buttonwood: In praise of pessimists
Sometimes it helps if investors are gloomy(17)
Language and culture: Rorschach linguistics
It's tempting—and usually foolish—to draw cultural conclusions from scattered linguistic clues(177)
Books of the year: The one that I want
Choosing the best of what has been published in 2011(8)
Human decision-making: Not so smart now
The father of behavioural economics considers the feeble human brain(24)
A Nobel Prize winner changes his mind about money and happiness(4)
Getting kinky with economic preferences(1)
Happiness and economics: Economics discovers its feelings
Not quite as dismal as it was(0)
Changing minds: Might the proper study of management be man?
A Harvard psychologist turns his mind to changing yours(0)
Human intuition is a bad guide to handling risk(0)
Economics focus: All too human
This year's Nobel prizes put man back at centre stage(0)
IRRATIONALITY: Rethinking thinking
Economists are starting to abandon their assumption that humans behave rationally, and instead are finally coming to grips with the crazy, mixed up creatures we really are(0)
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