Monday, January 22, 2018

Economists meet psychology

[Israeli psychologist Amos Tversky] had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, “All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots.”

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