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24 alternatives to Hidden Brain - Misbehaving

Why most economists might as well be studying unicorns

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hidden Brain - Misbehaving launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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Freakonomics▲97
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes▲60
From the life-changing science of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics: Why Uber Is an Economist’s Dream▲60
$7 bil: the consumer surplus Uber created.
2016 · its alternatives →
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99% Invisible - The Magic Bureaucrat▲62
How overgeneralized correlational data influenced US welfare
2016 · podcasts.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Going Deep #71 - Bob Seawright▲55
Using red teams to fight cognitive biases
2016 · goingdeepwithaaron.com · its alternatives →
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Predictably Irrational▲96
The hidden forces that shape our decisions
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Freakonomics - This Is Your Brain on Podcasts▲60
Scientific evidence that podcasts are good for your brain
2016 · freakonomics.com · its alternatives →
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Misbehaving▲62
The making of behavioral economics
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Fooled By Randomness ▲105
The hidden role of chance in life and markets
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hidden Brain - Terrorism▲59
How terrorist groups attract young followers
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us▲63
Our minds don’t work the way we think they do.
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Soft Control: Leaks from an Information Broker▲61
A new book on surviving the knowledge economy
2016 · softcontrol.us · its alternatives →
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You Are Not So Smart - 072 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect (Rebroadcast)▲55
We lack the skill to tell how unskilled and unaware we are
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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The Economist: The Future of Computing▲76
On artificial intelligence, Go and Moore's Law
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Innovation Ecosystem - Shane O'Mara▲54
Darwin’s self-doubt, the power of the resting brain
2016 · innovationecosystem.com · its alternatives →
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Cool▲67
How the brain's hidden quest for cool drives our economy
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Zero-Sum Society▲61
Distribution and the possibilities for economic change
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Truth, Errors, and Lies: Politics and Economics in a Volatil▲56
Politics and Economics of the Future
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Blindspot▲86
Hidden biases of good people
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hidden Brain - What Drives The Holiday Spirit? A Christmas Investigation▲56
Holiday giving, charity, and the exploration of altruism
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Intelligence Paradox▲70
Why the intelligent choice isn't always the smart one
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Who's in Charge?▲62
Free-will and the science of the brain
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Think Like a Freak▲81
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2014 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Naked Economics▲103
A book about economics that won’t put you to sleep
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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