Apr 22, 20092 minWhen discrimination is goodThe ticker is moving fast on Youtube for Susan Boyle, 47, unemployed. 50 million is just too many hits. Naturally we see lots of...
Mar 10, 20093 minOf brains and economic crisesWe wrote in The Wall Street Journal’s Mint about how it is not bad financial decisions that lead to an economic crisis, but actually...
Feb 24, 20091 minAnatomy of an Oscar coup – Part 1So, Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars yesterday. Well done, Boyle and Co. In a tip of the hat, I not only compliment him on his deft...
Feb 24, 20092 minAnatomy of an Oscar coup – Part 2continued from here For a start, fifteen weeks after it’s release, the movie is still holding strong at #5 on the box office lists. It...
Feb 20, 20092 minFairly irrational – Why Fair-trade products should do well in India?Why should people who otherwise bargain for every penny, pay more for something knowing fully well they are overpaying? While classical...
Feb 2, 20092 minDesign a better, irrational worldDan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and author of Predictably Irrational, presents examples of cognitive...
Jan 29, 20093 minPrisoners of precedence“We’ve always done it that way”. Precedence is a decision killer, we don’t take decisions many times, we just follow the past. more true...