Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Economists who adhere to rational-expectations models of the world will never admit it, but a lot of what happens in markets is driven by pure stupidity - or, rather, inattention, misinformation about fundamentals, and an exaggerated focus on currently circulating stories.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

The good news is that, at least in economics, I've seen movement away from its overemphasis on mathematical models of purely rational behavior to a more eclectic and commonsense approach: research that is, among other things, more respectful of insights from psychology.

Life's meaning heavily benefits from lifelong bonds.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.