Behavioural Economic Research and Analysis
Without doubt one of the largest South African news stories right now is the student protests under the broader “Fees must fall” campaign. These student-led movements have gained sympathy and ire in equal intensity it seems. The protests of 2015, and now of 2016, do this because we feel that […]
At the end of last week and in the wake of a damning Constitutional Court judgement, Jacob Zuma went on air and issued what many feel to be the most equivocal of apologies. Perhaps predictably, the ANC Youth league in KZN was quick to forgive, while the leader of the […]
Behavioural Economics is a field that has grown explosively over the past 40 years. In simplicity, it seeks to expand the classical economic model of a human as entirely rational to take account of the fact that humans are frequently and meaningfully irrational too. Drawing from fields such as psychology, anthropology, neuroscience as […]