Your Behavior Creates Your Gender

How do people make decisions? There is a class of models in psychology which seek to answer this question but have received scant attention in economics despite some clear empirical successes. In a previous post I discussed one of these, Decision by Sampling, and this post will look at another: the so-called Fast and Frugal heuristics pioneered by the German psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer. Here the individual seeks out sufficient information to make a reasonable decision. They are ‘fast’ because they do not require massive computational effort to make a decision so can be done in seconds, and they are ‘frugal’ because they use as little information as possible to make the decision effectively.

Cet article rassemble les principaux résultats des études de genre en finance. À partir d’une présentation des résultats inédits d’une enquête sur les ménages français (enquête Pater), nous examinons d’abord les différences de préférences et de comportements entre hommes et femmes en matière financière, puis leurs incidences à plusieurs niveaux.

In Scene on Radio Season 7, Capitalism, host and producer John Biewen and co-host Ellen McGirt outline the history of capitalism, from its emergence in Europe 500 years ago up to the present. And they explore alternatives, from reforms of capitalism as we know it to more radical transformations.

Der Digitalen Transformationscampus der Hochschule für Gesellschaftsgestaltung (HfGG) bietet vielseitige Kurse beispielsweise zum Thema Ökonomie und Ökonomik, Geld und dem Neoliberalismus.