James B. Duke Professor

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A snowball’s chance in this economy: How one bad economic decision can lead to others

Dan Ariely, a behavioral economist, has first-hand insight into how one self-destructive financial decision can thrust us into a downward spiral of many bad decisions. Dan Ariely is a professor at Duke University and author of ‘Predictably Irrational.’

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Dan Ariely on why we pay taxes (and why we sometimes don’t)

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The anatomy of cheating

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The Love of Labor (and Ikea)