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David Levine on Behavioral Economics: The Good, the Bad and the Middle Ground

Behavioral economics: love it or hate it – there seems to be no middle ground. Lovers take the obvious fact people are not frictionless maximizing machines together with the false premise that economists assume that they are to conclude that all of economics must be wrong. The haters take the equally obvious fact that laboratories ... David Levine on Behavioral Economics: The Good, the Bad and the Middle Ground