“Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter?”. If these don’t sound like typical questions raised by economists, it’s because they are not. But breaking conventional wisdom by exploring the hidden patterns behind daily life occurrences is exactly […]
Tag: behavioral economics
If the history of economic thought is a succession of new mainstreams, the current predominant school of thought is undoubtedly Behavioral Economics. Models introducing cognitive limitations of agents are now increasingly spreading and, even in those economic domains where there is more reluctance towards this approach, behavioral considerations are still part of the debate. If the […]
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