On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...

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From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Michele Norris. ROBERT SIEGEL, host: And I'm Robert Siegel. Dan Ariely parses the irrationality of human decision-making. He is a behavioral economist ...

Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...

Review of Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. By Justin E. Smith. Princeton University Press. 312 pp. $29.95. Centuries ago, the philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz declared that ...

Laurie Santos is an associate professor of Psychology and the director of the Comparative Cognition Laboratory and the Canine Cognition Center. She is also the instructor of “Sex, Evolution and Human ...

Women are bad drivers, Saddam plotted 9/11, Obama was not born in America, and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: to believe any of these requires suspending some of our critical--thinking ...

In a posting at The Big Picture, Barry Ritholtz says my article about the central role rational irrationality played in causing the financial crisis doesn’t make any sense. Ritholtz writes: “ ...

Sometimes the best investment books aren't even about investing. Dan Ariely's phenomenal new book, The Upside of Irrationality, is a perfect example. In the same fascinating style of his previous best ...

In HIERARCHY, DISAGREEMENT, AND FOOD POLITICS food economist Jayson Lusk discusses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and a modification or application by Ellyn Satter. Satter conceptualizes a hierarchy of ...

Writing a Comment for this week’s magazine about the S.E.C.’s lawsuit against Goldman Sachs got me thinking again about the underlying reasons for the subprime crisis. Was it primarily driven by Wall ...