Showing posts with label Policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Policy. Show all posts

Monday, 5 January 2015

Make policy for real, not ideal, humans

Many believe dysfunctional behaviour in finance is due solely to distorted incentives Financial times source
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. This famous remark of the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is particularly relevant to economists. “Homo economicus” is far-sighted, rational and self-interested. Real human beings are none