May Contain Lies: How Stories, Statistics, and Studies Exploit Our Biases--And What We Can Do about It

Author:   Alex Edmans
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520405851


Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 May 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Alex Edmans
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.567kg
ISBN:  

9780520405851


ISBN 10:   0520405854
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   14 May 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"""A clear-headed guide to the exaggerations, sloppy research and the occasional downright lies peddled by companies, universities, authors and Ted Talk gurus. . . . Edmans is determined to make us better, more critical thinkers.""-- ""The Times"" ""Edmans might believe that we're post truth, but he also proposes that it is in everyone's grasp to become smarter thinkers.""-- ""the Financial Times"""


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"Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. His TED talk ""What to Trust in a Post-Truth World"" has been viewed two million times; he has also spoken at the World Economic Forum, Davos, and in the UK Parliament. In 2013, he was awarded tenure at the Wharton School, and in 2021, he was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets&Quants. Edmans writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and Harvard Business Review. His first book, Grow the Pie, was a Financial Times Book of the Year. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences."

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