Economic Rockstar

Eyal Winter is the Silverzweig Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University and Economics Professor at Leicester University. He is a member and a former director of the Center for the Study of Rationality, an elected council member of the International Game Theory Society and an elected fellow of the Economic Theory Society. Eyal was awarded the Humboldt Prize for excellence in research by the German government in 2010. He has presented his work in more than 120 research institutes in 26 countries around the world including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Berkeley, Cambridge, and Oxford. Eyal's book Feeling Smart: Why our Emotions are More Rational Than We Think was published in January 2015. Eyal graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Mathematics, Statistics and Economics before going on to study his doctorate in Game Theory. In this episode you will learn: if there is a link between game theory and behavioral economics. how the perceptions of human behaviour vary greatly across all discipl