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Daniel Kahneman and behavioral economics (Pass away)

Daniel Kahneman and behavioral economics (Pass away)

Episode 677 Published 1 year, 11 months ago
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Today's story: Daniel Kahneman was a trained psychologist who became the ""grandfather of behavioral economics"" with his experiments on human behavior and decision-making. Though he never took an economics class as a student, he won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences for his work on how humans make decisions. He died in March at age 90.

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