Tag Archives: AQR

Young Guns Go For It

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Here’s the video for the AQR’s Young Guns pilot evening, which Lesley Thompson and myself moderated. This was a fascinating evening spent talking to a group of young researchers from some of the leading research agencies about what life is … Continue reading →

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Creative Qual Provides Fuel, Not The Chequered Flag

Posted on April 30, 2012 by

Start The Week: Creativity, with Jonah Lehrer and others A fascinating Start The Week this morning dealt with the subject of creativity, with that prolific interpreter of science for the masses, Jonah Lehrer discussing his new book. (OK, my bookshelf … Continue reading →

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An evening in A and E: a stitch in space-time

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Having just listened to Melvyn Bragg‘s In Our Time (In Our Time, 29th March 2012: The Measurement of Time) – discussing the history of the measurement of time, appropriately enough – here I am posting about the ultimate time-devouring black … Continue reading →

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White Light, White Heat: A Social Experiment

Posted on March 9, 2012 by

Like the BBC’s flagship new drama series White Heat, I’m thinking just now about being young again. No, I’m not consulting Goldie Hawn‘s face doctor, I’m just doing a little job for the AQR. Having noticed that my youth has … Continue reading →

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The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Is The Light Of An Oncoming Train)

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

  One of my favourite song titles (from Half Man Half Biscuit‘s Cammell Laird Social Club album) seems appropriate today, given the economic news. As an individual micro-business, the bigger patterns of the economy kind of don’t matter – and … Continue reading →

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Everybody will be doing behavioural economics in qual

Posted on November 9, 2011 by

Do you see what I did there? The title’s speculative, but no more so than the communication to the American public by Barack Obama’s team two weeks before the 2008 Presidential Election, to get the vote out: “A Record Turnout … Continue reading →

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From Behavioural Insights To Chris Moyles

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

Required listening for anyone in research, I think: All In The Mind Special: The Behavioural Insights Team. Interesting contributions to Claudia Hammond‘s Radio 4 documentary from the likes of Prof. Richard Thaler, Dr. David Halpern and Warwick University psychologist Neil … Continue reading →

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Organ Freeman: Thaler on Nudge

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

Professor Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge, is one of the most sought-after people in the world at the moment. His behavioural economics (BE) snowball is now well down the hill, has taken out some skiiers and is about to roll … Continue reading →

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The life of a diplomat awaits

Posted on June 28, 2011 by

This is one ambassador’s reception where a handful of Ferrero Rocher is about the best the guests can hope for. I have agreed to become an “AQR Ambassador” – hoping it will be more like “Ambassador to the United Nations” … Continue reading →

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Stampede of the Social Animals – more BE

Posted on June 5, 2011 by

David Brooks is the latest author to bring the reality of what goes on in the human mind into the public realm and the popular consciousness, with The Social Animal. Here he is talking about it (thanks RSA!) David Brooks … Continue reading →

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