Richard Thaler thinks you may need a little nudge from above to make the correct decisions.
Richard Thaler thinks you may need a little nudge from above to make the correct decisions.
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When the subject awoke from the state of somnambulism, he seemed to have lost all memory of what had happened while he was in that state. — Sigmund Freud, An Autobiographical Study
That’s like hypnotizing chickens. — Iggy Pop, “Lust for Life”
Why is it so easy to control the masses? I’m sure you have seen the phenomenon in which one person in a crowd of people suddenly looks up and stares at the sky, followed by the people around him, followed by the people around them and so on until everyone is gazing upwards at nothing. (more…)