no fools at london business school on april 1

Another public service announcement to attract readers to decision science lectures in London. After Dan Ariely last week at a the LSE, there is a bit of a cluster of the titans with Bruno Frey coming to the London Business School next week.

Dan Goldstein has more details at Decision Science News.

Wikipedia says (so it must be true) that Frey is:-

one of the world’s leading welfare economists. He is best known for his critique of Homo economicus or economic man, arguing that it places excessive emphasis on extrinsic motivation rather than intrinsic motivation.”

To be sure Homo knackeredemius will drag his tired limbs up to London to room LT3 at the LBS for 1730 next Tuesday, because he is intrinsically motivated. However, if you tap me on the shoulder this time, I’ll probably buy a round of drinks, thus ensuring your welfare and (if only indirectly) my own.

For a full schedule of talks organized under the banner of The Economics of Behaviour and Decision Making go here.

As Dan notes at DSN, London is blessed with a high concentration of decision science research, and the open seminars at the EBDM series and the London Judgement and Decision Making series.

But sometimes I see a pattern where none exists. The other week I attended the talk on the similarity heuristic…opposite Madame Tussauds. Academics, what are they like?

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