Lazy bastards. “How could they possibly just let this go? Do they even care? I mean, even a little?!” If you’ve ever uttered that, you too have been baffled by loss aversion. “They’re supposed to not want… bad. And yet they just keep doing it. Yeesh.” Which is why Dan Ariely says, People aren’t just … Continue reading Loss Aversion And Effort Aversion
Tag: behavioral finance
Behavioral Problems Need Behavioral Solutions
The finance industry has gone from intuitively exploiting behavioral biases, to endlessly labeling them, to discussing how to “correct” them, to (finally) start talking about how to work productively with people who are inherently… people. Messy, regular, (sometimes self-aware) people. Richard Thaler, long a lighthouse on these BeFi seas, said it beautifully in his book … Continue reading Behavioral Problems Need Behavioral Solutions
Podcast Of The Week: The Behavioral Finance Entertainment Complex
This Brian Portnoy take really resonated with me. He says we (the finance industry) have created a “Behavioral Finance entertainment complex that does very little to help real people make real decisions.” In a nutshell, people are predictably irrational (as Dan Ariely put it). We know a lot of ways these irrationalities manifest. In the … Continue reading Podcast Of The Week: The Behavioral Finance Entertainment Complex