The Irrational Consumer: Why Economics Is Dead Wrong About How We Make Choices
From Business : The Atlantic
January 16, 2013 - 2:41pm
A new paper reviews how psychology, biology, and neurology are ganging up on economics to prove that, when it comes to making decisions, people are anything but rational
January 16, 2013 - 2:41pm
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