Two Americans, Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics. Their research on market design has found many practical applications. It's at the heart of the system used ...

Sofia Dumery, MID ’98, head of design at toy company Melissa & Doug, discusses her unique path, making a space for yourself in design, and mentoring a young Pratt alum. Action oriented—that’s how ...

Behavioral Economics—An Exercise in Design and Humility Dan Ariely's latest thinking on our irrationality and its consequences. Posted Jun 23, 2015 ...

"Clinical Nuance: Benefit Design Meets Behavioral Economics", Health Affairs Blog, April 3, 2014 . DOI: 10.1377/hblog20140403.038296 Caption. 1101 Connecticut Ave ...

Our peer-reviewed reports present the evidence-based consensus of committees of experts. Published proceedings record the presentations and discussions that take place at hundreds of conferences, ...

An Oct. 1 session of Experience POWER, supported by POWER magazine, titled “Economics of Distributed Energy Systems,” brought together a panel of industry executives to discuss the many ...

Conclusion: Lessons from behavioral economics may greatly enhance the design and effectiveness of P4P programs in healthcare, but future work is needed to demonstrate this empirically. (Am J Manag ...

The Home Design That Could Change the Economics of Solar Forever. Portugal-based architectural project Houses in Motion has come up with a genius new design to make solar power much more cost ...

This is my seventh blog entry discussing outdated elements of the 3 rd edition of the Reuse Methodology Manual (the RMM) for SOC design, which first appeared in 1997. Here are some important ...

Behavioral Economics Behavioral Economics—An Exercise in Design and Humility Dan Ariely's latest thinking on our irrationality and its consequences ...