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February 17, 2005

Mullainathan
'Humanizing' economics
MacArthur Fellow Sendhil Mullainathan is trying to construct a more accurate model of economic behavior by adopting the perspectives of other social sciences - sociology, anthropology, and psychology. (Staff photo Rose Lincoln/Harvard News Office)
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Jennifer Shultis, trailblazer

Are economic choices rational?
Mullainathan says that people often base big decisions on seemingly 'inconsequential' factors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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