1. Behavioral economists say this reasoning is flawed. 2. Behavioral economists help to explain how booms persist while busts, like the one that the United States may now be entering, are difficult to reverse. 3. But to one group, behavioral economists, these examples are central. 4. Harvard quickly hired him, becoming the first university to deliberately recruit an economics professor trained as a behavioral economist. 5. Most people are not so activist by nature, the behavioral economists have found. 6. Rabin has enlisted Richard Thaler, another leading behavioral economist at the University of Chicago. 7. Some dentists, for example, are beginning to ask behavioral economists how to get patients to return every six months for teeth cleaning. 8. So far, the behavioral economists balk at government rules that try to offset human shortcomings in the marketplace. 9. The setting of wages also reflects the complexities of human psychology, the behavioral economists argue. 10. The young behavioral economists are not rebels. |
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