Mass Murder and the Stories We Tell 02/26/2018 How could the FBI and other governmental authorities have ignored all of the warnings? What kind of anger could prompt a teenager to want to kill former classmates and teachers? Why would someone of just high school age be allowed to buy a gun? Why did the school’s resource officer fail to enter the building and confront the killer? What are the life stories of the unfortunate students and teachers who fell victim to the murderer’s bullets? And how can we understand the special pain of
How could the FBI and other governmental authorities have ignored all of the warnings? What kind of anger could prompt a teenager to want to kill former classmates and teachers? Why would someone of just high school age be allowed to buy a gun? Why did the school’s resource officer fail to enter the building and confront the killer? What are the life stories of the unfortunate students and teachers who fell victim to the murderer’s bullets? And how can we understand the special pain of
How a Behavioral Economist Makes Baseball Predictions 08/03/2017 Now that the baseball trading deadline has passed, many fans are already thinking about next season. Behavioral economists may or may not be particularly interested in baseball, or any other sport for that matter. They are, however, obsessed with the result of any human endeavor, from success and/or failure at picking stocks to success and/or failure on the playing field. The so called experts find multiple and sophisticated reasons why someone, something or some team performs incredibly well
Now that the baseball trading deadline has passed, many fans are already thinking about next season. Behavioral economists may or may not be particularly interested in baseball, or any other sport for that matter. They are, however, obsessed with the result of any human endeavor, from success and/or failure at picking stocks to success and/or failure on the playing field. The so called experts find multiple and sophisticated reasons why someone, something or some team performs incredibly well
Understand Fake News and Make Better Business Decisions 07/24/2017 Can business leaders learn anything from today’s political discourse, a discourse that has come to be dominated by claims and counterclaims of fake news? We don’t just disagree on policy; we don’t even agree on the facts and empirical evidence that should, in theory, guide policy. One would think that businesses, with clear minded focus on the bottom line, would be much more capable of sorting out truth from fiction in their decision
Can business leaders learn anything from today’s political discourse, a discourse that has come to be dominated by claims and counterclaims of fake news? We don’t just disagree on policy; we don’t even agree on the facts and empirical evidence that should, in theory, guide policy. One would think that businesses, with clear minded focus on the bottom line, would be much more capable of sorting out truth from fiction in their decision