"Our ability to make choices is fundamental to our sense of ourselves as human beings, and essential to the political values of freedom-protecting nations. Whom we love; where we work; how we spend our time; what we buy; such choices define us in the eyes of ourselves and others, and much blood...

"In recent years, 'Nudge Units' or 'Behavioral Insights Teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce...

How do human beings make decisions when, as the evidence indicates, the assumptions of the Bayesian rationality approach in economics do not hold? Do human beings optimize, or can they? Several decades of research have shown that people possess a toolkit of heuristics to make decisions under...

Die britischen Universitätsprofessoren aus dem Wirtschaftsbereich sind davon überzeugt, dass sich mit einfachen Regeln die meisten der komplexen Probleme effizient und erfolgreich lösen lassen. Ausführlich zeigt das Autorenduo dazu, wie die für eine Entscheidungsfindung wirklich wichtigen...