This week’s guest blogger is David Orrell, an author, founder of Systems Forecasting, and an Honorary Visiting Research Scholar at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment in Oxford. The UK Kindle edition of Economyths is available for a limited time at the highly economical price of 99p. Read more
Dr Nattavudh (Nick) Powdthavee is a behavioural economist in the Department of Economic at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and is the author of The Happiness Equation: The Surprising Economics of Our Most Valuable Asset. He obtained his PhD the economics of happiness from the University of Warwick. Discussions of his work have appeared in over 50 major international newspapers in the past five years, including the New York Times and the Guardian, as well as in the Freakonomics and Undercover Economist blogs. It’s not often in our lifetime that we could almost hear the intellectual tide turning. The year was … Read more
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