Tag Archives: Daniel Kahneman

Start The Week: on “big data”

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

Start The Week (Radio 4): Big Data Here’s a link to this morning’s Start The Week, discussing “big data” and mathematical modelling of data. Well worth a listen. Contributions are from James Owen Weatherall on physicists in finance, Marcus du … Continue reading →

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Kahneman in conversation with Evan Davies and Prof Paul Dolan

Posted on November 8, 2012 by

Kahneman discusses Thinking Fast And Slow at LSE with Evan Davies and Paul Dolan For those interested in psychology and behavioural economics, here is a quick link via Prof Paul Dolan’s site to an hour’s discussion between Evan Davies, Dolan … Continue reading →

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Steering the elephant in the room, not just nudging it

Posted on May 28, 2012 by

In between helping my lad complete The Usborne Book Of Things To Spot out of the Flybe plane window back from Belfast at the weekend (or Fly Maybe as they are sometimes known) I caught up with Matt Grist’s paper, … Continue reading →

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More Brooks – TED talk on reasons to be cheerful about the revolution

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Brooks TED talk on The Social Animal This entertaining, brief talk gives a flavour of the book. Must read his book about our feted but ludicrous social elites, with a great title: Bobos in Paradise. I think he writes mainly … 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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Kahneman and the real meaning of Man Utd’s 6-1 defeat

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

As a Man Utd fan since the days of George Best (I am just about that old – I precociously started supporting them aged 3 in 1973), I was of course pretty disappointed by the events at Old Trafford on … Continue reading →

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