Behavioral economics helps investors understand irrational market behaviors and customer choices. Examples of behavioral economic theories include loss aversion and sunk-cost fallacy. Recognizing ...

Irrational behavior is a part of human nature, but as MIT professor Ariely has discovered in 20 years of researching behavioral economics, people tend to behave irrationally in a predictable fashion.

For more than three decades, Grover Norquist has been pushing his Taxpayer Protection Pledge as if it’s the answer to every financial headache the nation faces. Last week he told a small Anchorage ...

Please Note: Blog posts are not selected, edited or screened by Seeking Alpha editors. The US-listed China sector has undergone a horrible climate where volatility is high and irrational behavior ...

A Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist tackles some of the biggest issues facing Britain and explains why humans aren’t always rational. Show more How do human choices, biases, and behaviours ...

For roughly two decades, the new science of behavioral economics has been challenging what economists call “rational choice theory.” Rational choice theory described that primate species called Homo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Maurer covers how personal finance is more personal than finance. Aug 22, 2021, 07:00am EDT Aug 23, 2021, 10:40am EDT This ...