The Psychology Behind Why Smart People Make Terrible Decisions | Alex Edmans – EP 823
The podcast episode features a conversation between host John R. Miles and Professor Alex Edmans, author of The Madness of Markets, exploring how human psychology — including biases, emotions, and storytelling — distorts financial markets and decision-making. Despite the assumption that
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