Monday, 7 July 2008

Hyperbolic discounting and eschatological myopia

The title of this article may sound scary, but hopefully it’s not that so. One of the many discoveries from the field of behavioural economics is the concept of hyperbolic discounting. Hyperbolic discounting occurs when someone chooses a smaller payoff sooner rather than a much larger payoff later, but would reverse that choice if the […]

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