Economics
David Kreps: Choice, Dynamic Choice, and Behavioral Economics
An economist explains why “rational choice” is sometimes irrational.
March 27, 2015
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Stanford Graduate School of Business
Economist David Kreps argues that traditional economic models of “rational decision making” fail to capture the complexity of how real people make important choices.
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