Behavioral Economics is the application of psychology to the field of economics. It describes the role that psychology plays among consumers, employers, and governments, which then impacts markets and ...

Philipp Strack, a scholar of microeconomic theory who has achieved key advances in the field of game theory and behavioral economics, was recently appointed the Cowles Foundation Professor of ...

A recent article in Bloomberg describes how mathematical models behind modern economic theory (and, by extension behavioral economics) are being disputed and contested by a new perspective.

Behavioral science describes the study of human behavior through the use of systematic experimentation and observation. Behavioral scientists study when and why individuals engage in specific ...

What we eat can have an outsize ill effect on the planet. Food production is believed to contribute anywhere from 20% to 40% of Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions, but animal agriculture is responsible ...

Dr. Weatherby is the director of the Digital Theory Lab at New York University. It’s hard to walk a block or finish a morning coffee without encountering some system that attempts to tell you what to ...