Tag: Adam Smith

  • Resisting the Fatalism of the Behavioral Revolution

    Resisting the Fatalism of the Behavioral Revolution

    I love Peter Levine’s latest post, “don’t let the behavioral revolution make you fatalistic.” “Tversky’s and Kahneman’s revolutionary program spread across the behavioral sciences and constantly reveals new biases that are predictable enough to bear their own names. […] These phenomena are held to be deeply rooted in the cognitive limitations of human beings as creatures who evolved…