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- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Economists Can Make You a Healthier Consumer and Smarter Marketer
behavioral science, specifically, behavioral economics, tries to understand consumers as they actually behave and promote changes in their decision making around those biases. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Leslie John explains principles behind behavioral...
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by Amelia Kunhardt
- Web
Economist Intelligence Unit | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Databases Economist Intelligence Unit Economist Intelligence Unit Bookmark This Economist Intelligence Unit /find/databases/economist-intelligence-unit In-depth country and...
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- March 2003
- Article
An Economist Questions the Arbitration Award to Karaha Bodas Company in Indonesia
By: Louis T. Wells
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Indonesia
Wells, Louis T. "An Economist Questions the Arbitration Award to Karaha Bodas Company in Indonesia." Oil, Gas & Energy Law 1, no. 2 (March 2003): 47 – 57.
- Summer 2013
- Book Review
Review of "Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America" by Carolyn M. Goldstein
By: Ai Hisano
Hisano, Ai. Review of "Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America" by Carolyn M. Goldstein. Business History Review 87, no. 2 (Summer 2013): 381–384.
- July 2002
- Article
The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics
By: Alvin E Roth
Roth, Alvin E. "The Economist As Engineer: Game Theory, Experimental Economics and Computation As Tools of Design Economics." Econometrica 70, no. 4 (July 2002): 1341–1378.
- 2003
- Article
Double Dipping in Arbitration Awards? An Economist Questions Damages Awarded to Karaha Bodas Company in Indonesia
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Wells, L. T., Jr. "Double Dipping in Arbitration Awards? An Economist Questions Damages Awarded to Karaha Bodas Company in Indonesia." Arbitration International 19, no. 4 (2003): 471–481.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket
By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,...
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Self-interest;
Economist;
Moral Philosophers;
Regulation;
Capture;
Organization Design;
Economy Theory;
Organization Theory;
Management Theory;
Commitment;
Controls;
Governance;
Customers;
Conflict of Interests;
Business or Company Management;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Business Education;
Agency Theory;
Economics;
Theory;
Boundaries
Simons, Robert. "Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-045, October 2015. (Revised January 2019.)
- 10 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values
me hopeful. Q: How do people make decisions about these big economic questions? A: Economists have a very good way of thinking carefully—scientifically, you might say—about the mechanical effects of an economic policy. We are not very...
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- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
Shutterstock/Thomas Barrat Twenty years ago in this column we discussed whether the economic activity of that time actually represented the New Economy that Time magazine first touted in a 1983 cover article. Some economists picked up the...
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by James Heskett
Livia Alfonsi
Livia is a development economist whose research focuses on labor market frictions and determinants of labor market participation in low-income settings, with a particular emphasis on barriers to youth employment and female labor market participation. In a separate line...
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- 30 Dec 2015
- News
The Writer's Block
- 03 Jan 2014
- News
What's Wrong With GDP?
- 17 Jan 2018
- News
What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do?
- 09 Feb 2021
- News