Lionel Page
Professor UQ. Director @UQBESC. Editor JESA. Tweets on economics, psychology, & society. Book: 'Optimally Irrational', Substack: https://t.co/2z1pa9V5Jd
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Why reason fails: Our modern lives are teeming with technology, informed by scientific understanding. But at the same time, irrational beliefs, from superstition to vaccine hesitan...
The downfall of famous researchers associated with behavioural economics, Ariely and Gino, is raising new questions about the findings from the field. Have we gone too far with the...
The notion of โprobabilityโ is both familiar (we use it), and mysterious (we would typically struggle to define it). Here is a ๐งต to remove the mystery and make the meaning of โpro...
Behind Macronโs victory there is a large social divide. Macron got 71% of professionals/managers. Le Pen got 68% of workers. In France, like in the US and other countries, the p...
It is regrettable that many Western commentators repeated Putinโs narrative that the problem came from an aggressive NATO expansion aimed at encircling Russia. Time for a reset of...