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Monthly Archive January, 2014

Citation cartels

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Someone smart said something like ‘when you invent a system, you invent the game that plays that system’.

Dutch streetlights: Dimmed by default

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New streetlights brighten up only when someone is around, saving electricity and reducing light pollution.

Kahneman interview

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When was saw this interview featuring two JDM giants, Richard Thaler and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, we knew we had to run it.

BDRM July 17-19, 2014 London Business School

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Submissions for papers for both the 14th biennial conference on Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) and The Greater Good pre-conference will close on January 15, 2014.

Veggies by default

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We saw in our last posts that using double sided printing and cover sheets by default saves a lot of paper. This week we see a case in which defaults are effective, but have a costly drawback. Abstract says it all.