“Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?”
This stuff is a lot harder to read so I would have to assign much less of it than if I go with stuff written for a general audience. I almost never assign academic articles.
Maybe I’m misjudging the audience. What kind of stuff do you usually assign?
A standard textbook (Games of Strategy by Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley) and various articles I find interesting such as these:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/06/why-signals-are-shallow.html http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/a-common-joke-about-common-knowledge/ http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/06/sithwards_induc.html
“Why not use Kahneman and Tversky’s research on heuristics and biases?”
This stuff is a lot harder to read so I would have to assign much less of it than if I go with stuff written for a general audience. I almost never assign academic articles.
Maybe I’m misjudging the audience. What kind of stuff do you usually assign?
A standard textbook (Games of Strategy by Dixit, Skeath, and Reiley) and various articles I find interesting such as these:
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/06/why-signals-are-shallow.html http://freakonomics.com/2011/09/30/a-common-joke-about-common-knowledge/ http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2005/06/sithwards_induc.html