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Alex Imas

Disciplines:
psychology
behavioral economics
chicago booth
psychology/decision making

Summary

American behavioral economist at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business — who studies how psychological factors influence economic decisions, particularly around markets, attention, and motivated reasoning.

Core Contribution

Contributes to the behavioral economics literature on motivated reasoning and market behavior — his research examines how people's decisions deviate from rational choice models in systematic ways with economic consequences.

Notable Works & Achievements

Academic papers on behavioral economics

Historical Influences

Daniel Kahneman Richard Thaler

Intellectual Lineage

Carnegie Mellon Chicago Booth

Contemporaries & Peers

Richard Thaler Sendhil Mullainathan

Minds Influenced

Behavioral economics

Intellectual Posterity

Behavioral economics research on motivated reasoning

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