We don't always behave the way economists predict(David Blackwell, Flickr CC 2.0 BY-ND/2.0) Humans 'misbehave'—we're irrational, indecisive and passionate, yet ...

This is an audio transcript of The Economics Show podcast episode: ‘What economics gets wrong about human behaviour, with ...

New research finds that while securities regulators may be able to use insights gleaned from behavioural economics to encourage better decision-making by investors, what’s really needed is robust ...

WARC from Home is a new series to help subscribers to brush up on the essentials of marketing during the COVID-19 lockdown. Find all WARC from Home content here. Every week we’ll guide you around the ...

Consumer decisions today are no longer driven by logic alone; they reflect complex psychological and economic interactions. This is where ...

When presented with pre-set courses of action or defaults, we tend to accept what is presented. Intuitively, we often 'go with the flow', acting without considering other options and accepting what ...

Can peer pressure make delinquent taxpayers pony up what they owe the government? Behavioural economists say it can, and some tax agencies in both the United States and Britain are taking their advice ...

Behavioural economics is a revolutionary field. Its champions may not have beheaded any royalty, but they have done the academic equivalent by overthrowing a paradigm that ruled our thinking and ...

Britain’s new regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has published two new papers setting out efforts to use behavioural economics to improve regulation. The FCA says that it is interested ...

Presented by Chris Giles. Produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval. Manuela Saragosa is the executive producer. Original music by ...