Carolina QuotesPeople are not rational. Mainstream economics is pre-Freudian... because they don't think about the subconscious mind. Daniel Kahneman... has proven that rationality is impossible for mortals, human beings [with finite minds]... We're not superhuman.
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- A Progressive View on the Need for a Paradigm Shift in Economics (Dec 2020)
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- 2020
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