- A SHORT COURSE IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS— Edge.org – A year ago, Edge convened its first "Master Class" in Napa, California, in which psychologist and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman taught a 9-hour course: "A Short Course On Thinking About Thinking". The attendees were a "who's who" of the new global business culture.
This year, to continue the conversation, we invited Richard Thaler, the father of behavioral economics, to organize and lead the class: "A Short Course On Behavioral Economics". Thaler asked Harvard economist and former student Sendhil Mullainathan, as well as Daniel Kahneman, to teach the class with him.
Whereas last year, the focus was on psychology, this year the emphasis shifted to behavioral economics.
Musings on getting the impossible done in hostile operational environments
