Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Psychology. Show all posts
Thursday, November 14, 2013

McDermott and Shleifer double-team Taleb and Kahneman

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Not really. But I still enjoyed reading the following passage from Andrei Shleifer's review of Daniel Kahneman's (superb)  Thinking...
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Monday, October 28, 2013

TEDxBergen

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I mentioned the other day that I acted as moderator for the recent  TEDxBergen conference. Videos of the various talks have now been posted...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

It's not every day that you're called an idiot by Nassim Taleb

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Or a "bloggist" for that matter. Here and here . To be fair, Taleb has charged that many minds superior to my own are beset b...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

A question for Nassim Taleb fans

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I read an interesting article last night, detailing a  public exchange between Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Taleb . [E]ach man was asked to ...
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Monday, September 10, 2012

Sam Harris on "Life Without Free Will"

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He is on top form in this one. Here is a passage that resonates particularly strongly with my own meta-views of morality: If we cannot ...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Great TED talk on the evolutionary basis for religion

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..., spirituality and co-operation by the psychologist Jonathan Haidt. My economist self was particularly interested in his thoughts on free...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Free will in a world of Mad Men

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Mark Thoma links to a study discussing the limits -- or "origins" might be more correct -- of free will. I'll just highlight...