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Behavioral Economics and Financial Regulation. David S. Evans. Privileged and Confidential. Behavioral Economics (and Why you Should Care). Behavioral Economics Combines Economics and Psychology. Behavioral Law and Economics Applies BE to Regulation. Behavioral Economics Has Come to Town .
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Behavioral Economics and Financial Regulation David S. Evans Privileged and Confidential
Perhaps Its All Been Said Before • An 1884 editorial in Scientific American discussed “the curious processes of reasoning” that women used in deciding to buy a sewing machine on an installment plan. The author discovered the “psychological fact, possibly new,” that women “will rather pay $50 for a machine in monthly installments of five dollars rather than $25 outright, although able to do so.”
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