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William Poundstone comments in Priceless: The Psychology of Hidden Value:
Dr. David Lewis • The Brain Sell: How the new mind sciences and the persuasion industry are reading our thoughts, influencing our emotions, and stimulating us to shop
Three key features shape these chapters and the resulting rankings sufficiently to warrant some general observations for nonspecialist readers. The first is the curse of diminishing returns.
Bjorn Lomborg • Prioritizing Development: A Cost Benefit Analysis of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals
Economics as a discipline is often criticized because, unlike the “hard sciences” of physics or chemistry, it cannot be pinned down to an unchanging set of descriptions over time. But this is not a failing, it is proper and natural. The economy is not a simple system; it is an evolving, complex one, and the structures it forms change constantly ove
... See moreW. Brian Arthur • The Nature of Technology
a “reluctant capitalist.”
Daniel H. Pink • To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
This isn’t just about making money; it’s about making sure that citizens have access to accurate information about the world in which they live.
Tim Harford • The Data Detective
