David Orrell
Autor de Economyths: Ten Ways Economics Gets It Wrong
Sobre El Autor
David Orrell, acclaimed author of Economyths and Quantum Economics, explores the findings from psychology and neuroscience that are shaking up economics - and that are being exploited by policy-makers and marketers alike to shape everything from how we shop for food to how we tackle climate change mostrar más or the Covid-19 pandemic. With clarity and wit, he-assesses the lofty claims made for this most image-conscious of disciplines, ultimately asking: is behavioural economics a scientific revolution, or just a scientific form of marketing? mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: David Orrell (left) speaking with Robert Matthews at the Art Center Global Dialogues, Barcelona, 2008 By Crystalbay - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20135300
Obras de David Orrell
The Other Side of the Coin: The Emerging Vision of Economics and Our Place in The World (2008) 6 copias
Money, Magic, and How to Dismantle a Financial Bomb: Quantum Economics for the Real World (2022) 4 copias
The Money Formula: Dodgy Finance, Pseudo Science, and How Mathematicians Took Over the Markets 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1962
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Lugares de residencia
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Educación
- Oxford University (D.Phil.) (mathematics)
- Ocupaciones
- applied mathematician
writer - Relaciones
- Orrell, John (father)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 18
- Miembros
- 398
- Popularidad
- #60,946
- Valoración
- 3.5
- Reseñas
- 9
- ISBNs
- 42
- Idiomas
- 3
The Hot Science series by Icon Books covers new/developing/popular areas of science and is a good way to get your head around different areas of science in a compact format, particularly if you’re not familiar with the subject. I’m probably not the target audience of this book because I know a bit about economics and some of its branches in detail having studied it but hey…I like to read more about topics I’m familiar with. If you’re new to the field of behavioural economics, this book would be a good summary. However, it would be worth knowing something about how economics works before you read this.
The book starts strongly by looking at Brexit and other examples of how behavioural economics can and has been used. It goes through some of the major studies and looks at how behavioural economics suggests that rational, economic thinking isn’t really how things work. People can be irrational, selfish and take shortcuts to make decisions because sometimes, it’s all too hard to make one. Examples are given on prospect theory and how behavioural economics has been applied (or not) in recent times in government. The last chapter is a critical look at whether behavioural economics is the breakthrough it seems and whether it makes that much difference. It also introduces briefly quantum economics which uses ideas from quantum physics and mathematics. (The author also has written books on this subject). I enjoyed this chapter the most, despite being a supporter of behavioural economics (I think it can have sound applications in health). It was engaging and had a good pace to it. I found that some of the middle chapters were slow and quite dreary to read. There was no ‘sparkle’ or application of the subject to real life instances – which can be done in non fiction.
I would recommend Misbehaving over this if you are looking to get an understanding of behavioural economics – it’s better paced, interesting and contains a lot of real life examples.
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