Science Of Mistakes, The: Lecture Notes On Economic Data Engineering: 16 (World Scientific Lecture Notes In Economics And Policy) - Softcover

Caplin, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811282730 ISBN 13: 9789811282737

Publisher: WSPC, 2023

Synopsis

That mistakes are made is clear. What is meant by that is not. Measuring whatever might be meant and scientifically studying it is therefore even more challenging. These lectures introduce an interdisciplinary science of mistakes to cut the Gordian knot. The key building blocks are model constructs drawn from the economic tradition, methods of measurement drawn from the psychometric tradition, and analytic methods drawn from economic theory.

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About the Author

Andrew Caplin is Silver Professor of Economics at New York University. He is a cognitive economist whose research covers such diverse topics as how to reduce legal and medical errors, and how best to understand lifecycle patterns of earnings, spending, and investing. The common feature is the central importance of reducing mistakes. He is a leader of the Sloan-NOMIS Program on the Cognitive Foundations of Economic Behavior, the Behavioral Macroeconomics research group at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality at the University of Copenhagen. He has been working on modeling and measuring mistakes for some 15 years.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811282730
• ISBN 13: 9789811282737
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406