About Quote by Niall Ferguson

During periods of extreme fear or greed, you don't have the proper balance between those two to generate market efficiency and you get extremes…

— Andrew Lo

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day.…

— Evan Davis

“It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often…

— Kaushik Basu

“Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. Need as well as greed have followed…

— Nwabudike Morgan

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some…

— Edward Boyden

The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

— Daniel Kahneman

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

— Andrew Weil

“Behind this public glorification of greed, three recent experimental research studies suggest that the academic discipline of economics encourages a culture of greed.”

— Vaddhaka Linn

Economists suffer from a deep psychological disorder that I call 'physics envy'. We wish that 99 percent of economic behavior could be captured by…

— Andrew Lo

Greed is good to most economists. It's greed that makes people work harder, be more productive and helps the economy grow.

— Rebecca M. Blank

“What we learn from behavior economics is that the moment a metric is created it generates an incentive for people to pursue it.”

— David Amerland

One of the peculiarities of economics is that it still rests on a behavioral assumption-rational utility maximization-that has long since been rejected by sociologists…

— Lester Thurow