Epstein Secrets

Hood, Psychologist, University of Bristol Marco lacoboni, Neuroscientist, Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA Joichi "Joi" Ito, Director, Media Lab, MIT Daniel Kahneman, Psychologist & Nobel Laureate, Princeton David Kaiser, Science Historian, Harvard Stuart Kauffman, Biologist, Santa Fe Brian Keating, Astrophysicis

tion Ventures, =eijing Daniel Lieberman, Evolutionary Biologist, Harvard Seth Lloyd, Quantum Mechanical engineer, MIT George Loewenstein, Economist, Carnegie Mellon University Jonathan Losos, Evolutionary Biologist, Harvard University Thomas Malone, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Benoit =andelbrot (Estate), Mat

onesty. Ariely shows us how some basic factors, such as being tired or hungry, undermine our efforts to be ethical. I was struck here, as I was in Daniel Kahneman's excellent "Thinking, Fast and Slow." by the example of judges who tended to defer to parole boards as the judges got hungrier. The concept of "eg

is behavior is acceptable and will be likely to follow suit. Party affiliation may also play a big role. In a study that my colleagues and I ran at Carnegie Mellon University, we planted a fake participant who looked like either a fellow student (wearing Carnegie Mellon attire) or a student from a rival university (wear

the insights of an extensive network of external experts. At the same time, we continually endeavor to overcome the behavioral biases Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman and his collaborator Amos Tverksy have shown to affect economic decision-making and tolerance for risk. These key characteristics of our investment p

uctivity growth. In a forthcoming and comprehensive paper titled “Seven Reasons to Be Optimistic About Productivity,”?* Professors Lee Branstetter of Carnegie Mellon University and Daniel Sichel of Wellesley College show that periods of low productivity growth have been followed by periods of high productivity growth since 1