Tag: behavioural economics
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Cognitive biases and Election 2016
The electoral dust has finally settled, and from the wreckage of the coalition we can expect no further survivors. It was a case study in how to lose an election, a mixture of arrogance and tin-eared disconnect combined with a lurking bruised populace (or “whingers” as the Taoiseach would have us known) unwilling to believe…
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The Behavioural Economics of the Coalition’s Slump..
Just as all politics is, in the end, economics (what can we afford to do), it is reasonable to suggest that all economic policy is political (what can we afford to do). The name of this game is political economy after all, and we forget that at our peril. As we look forward to the…
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Behavioural Economics and the recession
This is a version of an opinion piece in the Irish Examiner 9 March 2013 One of the features of the recession, or depression or whatever it is we are going through is that the role of economists and economics has become more in focus. Seen from the inside however what is stark is how…