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I believe even hyper-rational individuals would be willing to take the risks associated with individual stocks if the risk/reward is deemed acceptable.
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Does the market need irrational investors to work or could a world of hyper-rational & logical Vulcans be able to support a stock market?
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He has had to give up the hyper-rational way of seeing the world he had learned as a Navy test pilot and engineer.
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Does the market need irrational investors to work or could a world of hyper-rational & logical Vulcans be able to support a stock market?
Regulate Mutual Funds?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He has had to give up the hyper-rational way of seeing the world he had learned as a Navy test pilot and engineer.
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If people get a bit irrational at the far ends of the curve then it can be quite sensible to address those fears even if such a policy would be bad in a world of hyper-rational Mr. Spocks.
Health Care and Moral Values, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Joshua Prince-Ramus runs the New York City firm REX Architecture PC, which is leading the charge to reinvent architecture around what he likes to call a "hyper-rational" approach.
Joshua Prince-Ramus On The Myth Of Architectural Genius 2010
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In the struggle to understand what it means to be human with dementia, we need the contributions of those who regularly traffic in the spheres of the intuitive and ineffable, who understand the value of someone as transcending linear, hyper-rational formulations of identity.
Lynn Casteel Harper: The Spiritual Implications of Dementia Lynn Casteel Harper 2010
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But Thaler argues that government policymakers don't need to be hyper-rational to help people make better choices.
NPR - Using Psychology To Save You From Yourself William Harryman 2009
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This is not a hyper-rational, orderly process of the sort a computer might undertake.
More on Empathy and the Law William Harryman 2009
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