Sunday, October 05, 2008

EDGE: A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS [10.1.08]

A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS [10.1.08]

Edge Master Class 2008
Richard Thaler, Sendhil Mullainathan, Daniel Kahneman
Sonoma, CA, July 25-27, 2008

AN EDGE SPECIAL PROJECT

Richard Thaler
 
Sendhil Mullainathan
 
Daniel Kahneman

A year ago, Edge convened its first "Master Class" in Napa, California, in which psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman taught a 9-hour course: "A Short Course On Thinking About Thinking". The attendees were a "who's who" of the new global business culture.

This year, to continue the conversation, we invited Richard Thaler, the father of behavioral economics, to organize and lead the class: "A Short Course On Behavioral Economics". Thaler asked Harvard economist and former student Sendhil Mullainathan, as well as Daniel Kahneman, to teach the class with him./.../

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