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it is important to understand what is being measured or counted, and how.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle
The most important question in twenty-first-century economics may well be what to do with all the superfluous people.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
As Tim Harford describes in his book The Logic of Life,* the birth of this theory was quite mundane.
Dan Ariely • The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone--Especially Ourselves
in general our predictive errors come in thinking that there is more certainty in the world than there really is.
Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
The spirit of this chapter is that good design is often no more expensive than bad design.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
Our premise was simple. Because people are Humans, not Econs (terms we coined for Nudge), they make predictable errors. If we can anticipate those errors, we can devise policies that will reduce the error rate.
Richard H. Thaler • Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics
changes, even when changes are very much in our interests.