Behavioural Economics with Dr Brendan Markey-Towler
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English - November 06, 2019 14:05 - 1 hour - 54.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBusiness business economics finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Dr Brendan Markey-Towler is a Senior Consultant at Behaviour Innovation, a Brisbane-based consultancy firm specialising in behavioural change which has undertaken a range of interesting projects include Project Cane Changer. Prior to joining Behavioural Innovation, Brendan researched and taught economics at the University of Queensland and University College London. He is the author of An Architecture of the Mind: A Psychological Foundation for the Science of Everyday Life, published by Routledge in 2018.
Questions posed by Gene to Brendan included:
How have economists traditionally thought about how people behave and make decisions? Why was it problematic?How has behavioural economics modified the way economists think?What does our new understanding of behavioural economics mean for policy (e.g. nudges, importance of overcoming biases, etc.)?What don't we know still that we really need to know?Books mentioned during the discussion included:
Nudge, by Richard Thaler and Cass SunsteinThinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe interview was recorded on 30 October 2019 at the Precinct innovation hub in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane.