Cognitive-behavioural economist. Mathematician. Author of The Psychology of Price, partner at @beirrational. Optimistic about humanity. 🥰 @ThisIsPasha. he/him
Jun 3, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
@DukeStJournal Well. It took some digging:
Countess Peel herself is not notable enough to have a Wikipedia entry. However, I believe the title is held by Charlotte Clementine Soames, sister of Nicholas Soames (former defence minister) and great-great-granddaughter of Winston Churchill. 1/@DukeStJournal (Correction, I clicked on the wrong Randolph - she is actually Churchill’s granddaughter). Her father was Lord Soames, last governor of Rhodesia before it won independence (as Zimbabwe) from the British Empire. That should give them something to talk about over the starters. 2/
Jul 29, 2018 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
Does the brain’s representation of imagined reward explain how the modern economy works? Some recent developments in psychology, neuroscience and economics suggest that it might. 1/25
We start from economics, and in particular a set of questions about non-material aspects of trade and economic value. Schelling, Loewenstein and others have asked why we value things (beliefs, the fates of characters on TV) that are wholly products of our own minds. 2/
