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Is rationality overrated?

With Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer on simple rules, fast decisions, and why the textbook's idea of a rational person would not survive a week.

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With Prof. Gerd Gigerenzer on simple rules, fast decisions, and why the textbook's idea of a rational person would not survive a week.

Recorded in London. A transcript follows within the week.

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Founding editor of The Unreasonable Human. Formerly a behavioural economist at the Treasury, and still recovering.

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