HarperCollins India presents NOISE by Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein & Olivier Sibony
NEW DELHI, April 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ HarperCollins India is delighted to announce the publication of the book NOISE. Most individuals show noise neglect.
Leading to unfairness, inefficiency, and reduced productivity, it pervades everything from medicine, law, public health and food safety to forensic science, bail verdicts, child protection, performance reviews and personnel selection.
If one wants better, more accurate outcomes for the things that matter, everybody must recognize and reduce noise.
It will save money, improve public safety and health, increase fairness, and prevent avoidable errors.
In NOISE, Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein and Olivier Sibony explain this little-known phenomenon, why it happens so frequently, and explain how to counter it. Their findings are as fascinating as they are alarming.
Robert Mundell, the intellectual father of supply-side economics, is dead at 88 Print this article
Famed Columbia University economist Robert Mundell, who popularized the theory of supply-side economics, has died. He was 88.
Mundell, a Canadian American, died Saturday morning at his home in Italy. He, along with his close associate Arthur Laffer, developed the school of supply-side economics in the 1970s. They theorized that increasing free trade and lowering taxes and regulations would increase economic growth. Laffer confirmed Mundell s death to the
Washington Examiner on Monday morning, as did Columbia.
Mundell was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, and with no good options for long-term treatment, he was brought from the hospital to his Italian home, where he died peacefully, his wife Valerie Natsios Mundell said in a statement.
Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen has said Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was one of the clearest proponents of secularism from which the world can learn. He said all the countries of the Indian sub-continent in particular can take guidance and inspiration from Bangabandhu. The renowned
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Since its creation in 1946, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has supported the early-career research of more than 60 Nobel laureates.
ONR, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year, is proud to add two more names to that illustrious list Dr. Robert Wilson and Dr. Paul Milgrom of Stanford University, who recently won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences.
The professors shared the accolade for their research in Auction Theory, which designs innovative formats for auctioning goods and services that are difficult to sell in traditional ways including radio frequencies, minerals, energy, electricity rates and cell phone bandwidth.
In addition to helping lay the foundation for the modern telecommunications industry, Wilson s and Milgrom s work improved how the U.S. Navy selects bidding contractors to build ships and submarines.
Jeff Ptak: Hi, and welcome to The Long View. I m Jeff Ptak, chief ratings officer at Morningstar Research Services.
Christine Benz: And I m Christine Benz, director of personal finance for Morningstar.
Ptak: Our guest this week is Gerard O Reilly. Gerard is co-CEO and chief investment officer of Dimensional Fund Advisors, an asset manager headquartered in Austin, Texas, that manages more than $600 billion using a systematic investing approach. In his role Gerard works with his co-CEO, Dave Butler, to set the firm s vision and strategy while also overseeing its investment processes. Prior to assuming his current post, Gerard was Dimensional s head of research. In addition to serving as a Dimensional director, Gerard co-chairs the firm s Investment Research Committee and is a member of its Investment Committee. Gerard obtained his doctorate in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and his master s degree in high-performance computing from Trinity College, Dublin.