Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses

Update: 2011-11-28

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Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Oswald | Herd behaviour is often natural and individually rational, but it has the potential to be disastrous for the group. In this lecture, Andrew Oswald will discuss human herd behaviour and its links to 'keeping up with the Joneses'. Andrew Oswald is professor of economics at Warwick University, a visiting fellow at IZA Bonn and an editor of the journal Science.

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Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses

Professor Andrew Oswald

Herd Behaviour and Keeping up with the Joneses