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The Great Equalizer? Consumer Choice Behavior at Internet Shopbots

Our research empirically analyzes consumer behavior at Internet shopbots— sites that allow consumers to make “one-click” price comparisons for product offerings from multiple retailers. By allowing researchers to observe exactly what information the consumer is shown and their search behavior in response to this information, shopbot data has unique strengths for analyzing consumer behavior. Fur...

Teaching by great teachers.

Many of us, Dear Reader, love to teach. It was our love of teaching that brought us to academic medicine, and it is our love of teaching that continues to make us feel lucky to work in this profession. Among the many dedicated educators in academic psychiatry, some are truly exceptional. These individuals are the great teachers in our field whose work is set apart by its mix of perspective, rig...

“ The Great Moderation , the Great Panic and the Great Contraction ” by Charles Bean

at the causes of the financial crisis and subsequent recession. He argues that much of what went wrong can be analysed using standard economic tools. The Great Moderation was a period of unusually stable macroeconomic activity in advanced economies. This was partly thanks to good luck, including the integration of emerging market countries into the global economy, and partly a dividend from str...

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Much of cognitive science seeks to provide principled descriptions of various kinds and aspects of rational behaviour, especially in beings like us or AI simulacra of beings like us. For the most part, these investigators presuppose an unarticulated common sense appreciation of the rationality that such behaviour consists in. On those occasions when they undertake to bring the relevant norms to...