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It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
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In Click, his fast-selling book released earlier this month, he argues that the ISP's massive data dump can tell us what consumers want, predict the economic future and maybe even offer insight into human nature.
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And perhaps leaving the reader with suspicions of the protagonist is exactly what McEwan - famed for his forays into the darker side of human nature - set out to do.
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But when our daily lives change for the better, human nature lulls us into all but forgetting what preceded.
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Then human nature places the tripwire for falling into the trap.
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Though it is human nature to put various banking and brokerage accounts into buckets, your net worth is calculated by totaling everything you own.
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Incidents such as the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, have provided deadly evidence of the power of nature to wreak destruction and throw human communities into chaos.
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Biases are a part of human nature, and when they occur with our finances they can be expensive--lulling us into a false sense of security while blinding us to dangerous realities.
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Human nature is such that we keep doing what has been a winner and we stop putting our hands into the fire.
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