Amos Tversky

December 19, 2018|Amos Tversky, Antara Haldar, Daniel Kahneman, Game Theory, Homo Economicus, Nudge, Rational Choice, Richard Thaler

The Critics’ Misplaced Love for Behavioral Economics

by James R. Rogers|10 Comments

Choices, choices (Image: Igor Kardasov/Shutterstock.com).

Critics love behavioral economics because they think it gives traditional economics the comeuppance it deserves, and this is a mistake.

April 26, 2018|Amos Tversky, behavioral economics, Cass Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman, efficient markets, Michael Lewis, Moneyball, Richard Thaler

Moneyball Illustrates Efficient Markets, Not Behavioral Economics

by James R. Rogers|4 Comments

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Many have the story of Moneyball wrong: it's not a story of systematic error but one of eliminating systematic error in a market.

Reconsidering the Sources of American Liberty

by Tony Williams

Wormersley's volume addresses the sources of American Revolution and how those ideas fashioned American understandings of liberty.

Just Before the Return of the Strong Gods: On Charles Péguy’s Temporal and Eternal

by James Matthew Wilson

Nature hates a vacuum, and if modern civic life does not fill itself with a range of sound mystiques, others, more dark, will make an entrance.

The Populist Presidency vs. The Founders' Presidency

A discussion with Stephen F. Knott

Stephen Knott discusses the immense revolution in power that has remade the American presidency over the past century.

Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution

A discussion with Greg Weiner

Greg Weiner discusses the difference between the political constitution and the judicial constitution.

Managing Whiteshift

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann

A discussion with Eric Kaufmann about white majorities and the future of politics in western democracies.

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

A discussion with Helen Dale

Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

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