Series
SMU-Ikeda Peace & Harmony Lecture
6th Annual SMU-Ikeda Peace and Harmony Lecture - Living and Thinking Through the Current Pandemic: The Local, the Global, and the Planetary
Events Location
Open To
SMU Community, Public
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Synopsis
The figure above demonstrates the Müller-Lyer illusion, where equal-length lines appear different due to cognitive processing, illustrating how perceptions can mislead us – a key concept in Behavioural Economics. This field explores how psychological attributes affect economic decisions. Our lecture will first examine examples of how these attributes lead to seemingly irrational decisions. Then we will discuss leveraging an understanding of behavioural biases to subtly influence decision-making contexts, nudging individuals towards more desirable choices.
Speaker
Speaker Details
Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Studies at the University of Chicago. He was a founding member of the Subaltern Studies collective, a founding editor of Postcolonial Studies and is a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. He is the recipient of the 2014 Arnold Toynbee Memorial Prize for his contribution to global history. He was also awarded the Tagore Memorial Prize in 2019 by the Government of West Bengal, India, for his book The Crises of Civilization (2018). Chakrabarty is the author of many books and articles including Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, 2008; 2000) and "The Climate of History: Four Theses," Critical Inquiry, 2009. His latest book is The Climate of History in a Planetary Age (Chicago, 2021, in press). |
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