"Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen,"

"Des waerelds doen en doolen, is maar een mallemoolen," engraving from Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid, 1720.

"The actions and designs of the world go round as if in a mill." South Sea bubble financial crisis.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Behavioral finance is at the individual level

Courtesy of Kal, The Economist



















Here are 7 psychology concepts showing that investors are not rational as orthodox financial economics holds. Investors have emotions and mental frameworks to process information that makes their decisions irrational, though perfectly "normal". 

But behavioral finance is at the individual level, not the group or the societal level. The title of the post linked above is clear: the biases examined by behavioral finance are psychological. At the group level, the dynamics might different, but to discover that, we need more work from the sociology of finance and crowd psychology. 

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