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Daniel Kahneman on our experience self

Geoff Riley

2nd March 2010

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A new perspective on happiness economics - in this newly released TED talk and using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our “experiencing selves" and our “remembering selves" perceive happiness differently.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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