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It’s Not Just the President’s Psychology that Should Give Us Pause, It’s the Whole Bias of Human Psychology toward Believing that We Are “The Decider”

“Bush Derangement Syndrome” (BDS) is the derisive way that Washington Post’s op-ed columnist Charles Krauthammer refers to psychologically oriented analyses of George W. Bush’s brand of presidential decision-making. (The Bush family itself styles such analysis as “psychobabble.”)
While it’s no secret that I generally find this President’s mental performance ranking somewhere between the ludicrous and the [...]

If You Are Wondering Why We Haven’t Reached a Point of Autocatalysis Sufficient to Make Up for All the Entrenched Stupidity, Here’s Some New Academic Disciplines Trying to Find the Answer

A long-time friend and colleague valued for many reasons, not the least of which is the expansive range of his scholarly interests, writes:
I often get lost in the soup of new economic titles that try to capture the behavioral side of economics, an area that has languished until recently. Books on neuroeconomics, behavioral economics, [...]