The Biases that Limit Our Thinking about the Economic Outlook and Policy&star

John E Silvia

Business Economics, 2012, vol. 47, issue 4, 297-301

Abstract: To make effective private-sector decisions and government policy, it is important for those who make decisions and those who are impacted by them to know whether these decisions might be influenced by underlying biases. This paper enumerates and discusses potential biases, their sources, and how they might influence selected policies and decisions.

Date: 2012
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