{"id":4308,"date":"2010-12-09T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2010-12-09T12:49:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-09T11:49:41","slug":"the-lessons-of-behavioural-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"The lessons of behavioural economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research into behavioural economics\u00a0 published by the Communications Consumer Panel today shows that vulnerable consumers,\u00a0 particularly low income consumers and to a lesser degree older\u00a0 consumers, are more likely to\u00a0 display the biases identified by behavioural economics. This can put\u00a0 them at particular disadvantage in complex markets such as\u00a0 communications.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communicationsconsumerpanel.org.uk\/smartweb\/consumer-protection\/behavioural-economics-and-vulnerable-consumers\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in behavioural economics, I can recommend a very accessible book called &#8220;Predictably Irrational&#8221; [my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nfbooks.html#PI\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research into behavioural economics\u00a0 published by the Communications Consumer Panel today shows that vulnerable consumers,\u00a0 particularly low income consumers and to a lesser degree older\u00a0 consumers, are more likely to\u00a0 display the biases identified by behavioural economics. This can put\u00a0 them at particular disadvantage in complex markets such as\u00a0 communications. You can check out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}