Description: Cassidy looks to the field of behavioral economics for a new understanding of the economy, one that casts aside the old assumption that people and firms make decisions purely on the basis of rational self-interest.
Brief description:
John Cassidy is a journalist at the New Yorker and a contributor to the New York Review of Books. He is the author of Dot.con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. He lives in New York City.
Review Quotes:
"Brilliant."
-- "New York Times Book Review"