Paul Krugman described behavioural economics as the most important innovation in the economics discipline for half a century.[1] Three decades ago, I reviewed The Winner’s Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life by Richard Thaler which reported behaviour which appeared anomalous according to the economist’s standard model of ‘rational economic man’. Anomalies are at the heart of scientific […]
The Winner’s Curse: Behavioural Economics Anomalies Then and Now
The Winner’s Curse: Behavioural Economics Anomalies Then and Now
24 Jul 2026 Leave a comment
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