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Behavioural Economics/Finance

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  • 23-02-2009 10:35pm
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    thebang
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    Could anyone recommend a good popular book on this subject? I am interested in the area - the only thing out there seems to be Nassim Talebs books but i heard his writing style is very annoying:pac:


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    [Deleted User]
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    Taleb is ok, I liked the book.

    Pete Lunn (from the ESRI) has one out but it is aimed at the total lay man (I found the style in that a lot more annoying then Taleb)

    Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational is very good, as of course, are the two books by Shiller: Irrational Exhuberance and The Subprime Solution.


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    thebang
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    cheers!


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    Al_Fernz
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    thebang wrote: »
    Could anyone recommend a good popular book on this subject? I am interested in the area - the only thing out there seems to be Nassim Talebs books but i heard his writing style is very annoying:pac:

    Hot off the press and highly recommended: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8967.html

    Also check out the reading list on this bad boy: http://www.ucd.ie/economics/staff/ldelaney/behavioral.pdf


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    [Deleted User]
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    Al_Fernz wrote: »
    Hot off the press and highly recommended: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8967.html

    Also check out the reading list on this bad boy: http://www.ucd.ie/economics/staff/ldelaney/behavioral.pdf

    I didn't know that animal spirits was out yet, must get it!


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    Flamed Diving
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    Did Camerer ever do a laymans book?


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    thebang
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    funny i watched a lecture by him on youtube at the weekend but I forgot his name. It was good but too long by half for what he said
    I will definitely add these to my list.
    There is an interview with him on www.charlierose.com (great site and show by the way)


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    nesf
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Dan Ariely - Predictably Irrational is very good

    Really? I didn't enjoy it at all and found it lacking on substance. I wasn't in very good form when I read it though, so I might have been too critical. ;)

    Flamed Diving wrote: »
    Did Camerer ever do a laymans book?

    Camerer's book that I listed in the Resources thread should be readable to a layman with some aptitude for the subject. He keeps the mathematics to the footnotes for the most part.


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    Time Magazine
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    thebang wrote: »
    Could anyone recommend a good popular book on this subject? I am interested in the area - the only thing out there seems to be Nassim Talebs books but i heard his writing style is very annoying:pac:
    NNT isn't a behaviouralist.
    nesf wrote: »
    Really? I didn't enjoy it at all and found it lacking on substance. I wasn't in very good form when I read it though, so I might have been too critical. ;)
    Agreed. Ariely's book is a bit crap. I prefered Dan Gilbert's, which wasn't amazing either.


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    ixus
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    Robert Shiller is the man you want to search for.


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    letsbet
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    Nudge (Thaler and Sunstein)
    Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
    Predictably Irrational (Ariely)

    All top quality and interesting reading.


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    Black Swan
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    As an alternative to reading books that often take 2 or more years from draft to publication, you may want to also consider scholarly journals that tend to be a bit more current (e.g., Journal of Behavioral Economics).


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