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Roughly 90% in one case and about 15% in the other. on very consequential decisions people can be guided by those s people can be guided by the superficial aspects of the situation. >> do you think that what this tells you is that the government should be more active in trying to shape peoples choices? what areas would you advocate more is done? >> well, you know, i think this is something that is actually happening today in the obama white house because you have a behavior economist who is in c...

>> i think theres a better than even chance there will be a naval incident between the chinese and either the vietnamese or the philippines. worse for the u.s. if its philippines because they are a treaty ally. but it could be actually provoked by china. im more with daniel. i see more signs of instability, seesawing between trying to control inflation but realizing they are choking off credit and going back and forth. its quite possible if they really get into trouble and could be connected wit...

Money considerations. a rather small amount of money on the scale of what a particle collider costs. >> do you worry the federal government is not funding basic science at the level it used to in the 1950s and 1960s? >> i worry we dont have a vision of how were doing to continue funding it. i think for a long time america was the place where discoveries were made, at least my field. in particle physics. i visited a lab a european there saying were better find a particle because they just werent ...

That makes that happen? >> there are two things. one is something that happens in your mind, the association. for some reason that problem brings $0.10 to mind. the other thing is something that doesnt happen. you dont think. thats the key difference. >> if you wrote it out as an equation i found you dont -- >> you dont make a mistake. $0.10 and another dollar that comes to $1.20. they dont trick. there are interesting differences between the people that trick and people that dont. at harvard an...

Its an association machine. >> when you think about this, does it make you feel the way in this economics is done, the way we think about economics is all wrong? because there is a sense in which what youre describing is the human capacity to really make false judgments all the time, to not know what is in your best rational self-interest. >> the idea that people are completely rational really is something very important, which is that the government has the responsibility to ensure disclosure. ...

Harvard. she has a new book called "knocking on heavens door: how physics and scientific thinking illuminate the universe and the modern world." she joins me now. thank you for coming. ? thank you for having me here. >> what is going on in science and physics that excites you? how are we going to explain to the world or the universe in different ways? >> well, right now im very excited because this is the era of experiments, even if the experiment is in europe. i dont care of theres an experimen...

Market? >> nobody wants a world in which the government will decide what you eat, thats not a -- thats not going to prevent people from eating fat food. theres a balance. theres a balance between freedom, which everybody wants to protect, and you know, the need of individuals to be in some cases helped, make decisions that they will want to have made. i mean its not that you are forcing people into things they dont want. and in the case of saving, most people want to save more than they do. and ...

East now, very old. if he were to die, would you have a new supreme leader or would that call into question the whole system? >> that would be a mess, in my opinion. you do. you have rural constituencies versus clerical constituencies. im not going to call that one. >> daniel, iran. anything? >> whats been painted is a benign scenario. the worst is avoided, the real showdown. if ahmadinejad were to go one way or another, that would obviously be a good thing as far as the west is concerned. my fe...

Out -- attempt to take out the nuclear program. >> anne marie, one of the things ive heard in washington is there are a lot of people in washington who feel that the israeli belligerence is an effort to play us rather than a signal they are about to strike iran. do you think thats right? they are trying to say to us, look, were getting really serious so unless you guys in washington do more, we might strike? >> i do, but i dont think its working. i think everybody knows where everybody else is i...

Dramatic way, perhaps not the way i thought. there will be various complex mechanisms that will involve european central bank, some kind of bond insurance. i remain convinced germany will not let europe fall apart. if things get too dangerous germany will write the checks. its trying to get the best deal it can, the most reforms from countries like greece and italy before it does write the checks. as for america, im still bullish. i think the american economy continues to have great strengths, c...