Book 5: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics I am extremely excited to read this one. Behavioral economics, or basically the intersection of psychology with economics, is the study of human behavior that drives economic decisions. Traditionally, economics assumes that we are rational actors. Unfortunately, humans are prone to being quite irrational. Shortlisted for the Financial Times and […]
Category: What I’m Reading
I like to read. Hopefully, you do too! Many are effusive in their praise of reading books, some designating them as “life changing.” I agree with that. Thus, my New Year’s resolution is to read 52 books in 2017. In order to incentive myself to read more, I am going to hold myself accountable to the books I read by writing about them here or on Medium after I read them. I will post the books I’ll be reading each month in advance so that you can read along if you wish. This will be a big challenge, so I’m getting started early (2 days before January 1st). I wish you luck with your New Year’s resolutions, and if you haven’t decided on one yet, join me in the 52 books challenge – it’ll be fun. Happy New Year!
January
Book 1: The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley This seemed like a good choice to start 2017. Ridley makes a simple case: based on historical data, humanity is doing significantly better than ever and he sees us only going up. Indeed, there’s less abject poverty, fewer plagues, more people are being fed, and […]