Alison Ledgerwood has a PhD in social psychology from New York University. She is interested in understanding how people think, and how they can think better. Her research, investigates how certain ways of thinking about an issue tend to stick in people's heads. Don’t...
You’re probably familiar with the story of a Mexican fisher man and an American investment banker, but humour me. The banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when the fisherman docked his little boat and a conversation ensured. The banker complimented...
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. John Kenneth Galbraith Everywhere you look these days, clairvoyants clocked up as experts are falling over one another to register their predictions as to what the markets will do next. There are few...