Behavioral Economics Isn’t Very Useful
Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.
Behavioral economists are masters of comparing apples to oranges and dressing up incorrect statements in fancy language and mathematics.
By Madhusudan Raj on Mises India Chapter 2, Vol I of the Economic Survey of India 2018-19 begins with this title: Policy for Homo Sapiens, Not Homo Economicus: Leveraging the Behavioural Economics of “Nudge”. It starts with the following Sanskrit stanza: We cannot rely totally on rational thinking to gain information, as it is not […]