Behavioural economics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates insights from psychology, sociology, and neuroscience into traditional economic models to better explain decision‐making in ...

Biological plausibility and randomized controlled efficacy trials justify the importance of clean and accessible water, improved sanitation, and hygiene in reducing morbidity and mortality rates.

The sale of regulatory technology to financial institutions is often a long and complex process, with multiple stakeholders, as is the norm for enterprise sales. But let’s look at how the principles ...

Ralph-Christopher Bayer receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the International Olympic Committee. Kogan Australia has grown from a garage to an online retail giant in a little ...

Behavioral economics, it seems, might just have a bias problem of its own. Once dismissed as little more than psychobabble, the discipline, which marries classical economics with psychology, has won ...

Richard Thaler, a pioneer in the behavioural economics field, says he will spend his award money “as irrationally as possible” Professor Richard Thaler speaks to guests after being awarded the 2017 ...

I’m Chris Giles, the FT’s economics commentator. Welcome to the Economic Show from the Financial Times. You may well have guessed that in this episode I’m speaking to Richard Thaler, the economist ...

The roots of behavioural economics go back to the 1950s, when economist and cognitive psychologist Herbert Simon began to look at ways to merge those two fields. Mainstream neoclassical theory had ...