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Topic: Behavioral economics

Behavioral economics explores how psychological factors and biases influence human decision-making and economic behavior.

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The podcast episodes provided cover a range of topics that relate to the field of behavioral economics, which examines how human behavior and decision-making departs from the traditional economic models of perfect rationality.

Several episodes discuss the pioneering work of psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose groundbreaking research on cognitive biases and heuristics laid the foundations for the development of behavioral economics as a discipline. For example, episodes 11665, 11529, and 24594 explore their contributions in depth.

Other episodes explore the application of behavioral economics principles to various domains, such as algorithms and matching systems (39994), housing markets and homeownership (39875), investment decision-making (58010, 59021), consumer behavior and marketing (2605, 2296), and habit formation and goal-setting (443).

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