Carolina Quotes[F]our economists have received Nobel Prizes for Behavioral economics... [T]hat should be the default model. ...Forget about rationality. That's a silly assumption.
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- A Progressive View on the Need for a Paradigm Shift in Economics (Dec 2020)
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