Step Aside, Oscars, Here Are the Becon Winners
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Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Behavioral economists explore humanerrors. They focus on how people depart from perfectrationality. Many of the best movies do the same thing. Theyinvestigate how our all-too-human foibles create trouble,wealth, violence, heroism, love and war. It is past time, then,to award the Behavioral Economics Oscars, otherwise known as theBecons.
Best Documentary: Behavioral economists have long beenfascinated by social influences on behavior -- by the extent towhich our choices are affected by the choices of other people.Why do some products succeed and others fail?