Discover George Akerlof's pioneering work in economics, including his Nobel-winning analysis of asymmetric information and influential theories in market dynamics.

In July, 2025, the UK Government published the long-awaited National Health Service (NHS) 10-year plan for England centred on three major shifts:1 from hospital to community; analogue to digital; and ...

In this episode of the Marketing Smarts Live Show, B2B marketing expert and author Nancy Harhut delves into the fascinating world of behavioral science and its usefulness in marketing for decoding and ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...

As the column’s name suggests, Thaler set out to challenge standard economic thinking by testing economic anomalies—in other words, what happens when our irrational, some might say human, selves are ...

It is a bit difficult to say what criteria should be used to judge the success or failure of a research initiative on the scale of merging psychology and economics. Two reasonable criteria, at least ...

The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to three researchers who have shown how technological and scientific innovation, coupled to market ...

A Northwestern University professor has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his historical studies on sustained economic growth through technological progress. Joel Mokyr, who has ...

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said. By Eshe ...

This fall’s Foltyn Seminar brought together a leading expert in behavioral economics and key figures of community programs in Delaware to better understand how individuals make decisions and how those ...

Behavioral economics has struggled to simultaneously accommodate two facts: (i) people make mistakes, even on very consequential decisions; and (ii) different people have different preferences. Doing ...