Interesting article on behavioral economics from Harvard Mag

The article is a couple of years old, but it's well-written. I ran into it searching on "behavorial economist" and "procrastination".

http://www.povertyactionlab.com/news/HarvardMagazine05.01.06.pdf

Comments

[TGGP]

Off-topic, but this otherwise intelligent blogger has written something that almost seems intended to get your goat:
http://elysiumrevisited.blogspot.com/2008/07/die-well.html

[Hopefully Anonymous]

I wasn't that bothered by it. Seemed like someone poetically suggesting that we shouldn't fear death. I lean in favor a good percentage of the population not fearing death. For example, I'm a big fan of most people donating their brains to brain banks. I want lots of people to go into jobs that increase their risk of information theoretic death in order to lower my personal risk. I'm a bit of an egoist straussian regarding fear of death.