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Jul 2017
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How Can You Avoid Thinking Like the Herd...

MORGAN STANLEY
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Smart decision-making takes more than intelligent people and good data. The theories of behavioral economics inform how businesses, and the rest of us, can try to avoid the irrational responses that may work against our best interests.

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