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Special Edition: Theory of Anything Hosts David Deutsch

The Theory of Anything

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The Importance of Incentives in Psychology

David Wheeler: I think your comparison with the dinosaur theory is a bit unfair. If you want to make an artificial fossil, then going via dinosaurs is far too inefficient. But since I don't know how it works, I can't really pontificate about how to do it.Wheeler: Thank you. Parik Gleason asked whether behavioral economics was fundamentally based on faulty assumptions under as not much use to it or if it's just maybe contingently useful based on cultural ideas that are given time and something like that.

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