The book helps you look below some of the lazy models of economists that focus exclusively on monetary incentives. And thereby ignoring much of the human experience if we are not careful. If I have a certain animus towards economists, it's not really towards you or towards eminent economists. It's towards the extent to which a kind of shallow economic thinking has permeated business school curricula and enabled people to treat what is something which exists in economic theory as a default decision making frame. That seems to me extraordinarily dangerous.
Author and Advertising Executive Rory Sutherland of Ogilvy talks about his book Alchemy with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Sutherland makes the case for the magic (yes, magic!) of advertising and branding in helping markets work well. This is a wide-ranging conversation on consumer choice, public policy, travel, real estate, and corporate decision-making using insights from behavioral economics and decades of experience in the world of advertising.