Economics

Beginner's Guide to Irrational Behavior

For all you Dan Ariely fans, here's a treat. Duke University is offering A beginner's guide to irrational behavior, free on Coursera. The course starts today, is eight weeks long, and from what I can make of it, well worth all the time and effort you spend on it.

I just signed up for it. 

Allow me a bit of chest thumping. I'd interacted with him on email end 2010. The outcome of that interaction was a lovely essay, The truth about cheating that I published in my earlier stint at Forbes India.