[lbo-talk] the paradox of choice

[mart]

i actually read that book; not too bad.  on the other hand, the dude is at swarthmore, where its very easy to a. make the right choices. and b. if you f-k up, you still have half your money to make the right choices (and that is what differentiates the better versus worser off---the worsers cant buy french fries.

--- On Fri, 9/18/09, Andy <andy274 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Andy <andy274 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] the paradox of choice
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 8:06 PM

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 3:51 PM, shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
> this is a great video about why too many choices actually makes our
> lives less free or, at least, why too many choices means we ultimately
> fall back on the more restricting ways of making decisions that we
> were trying to get away from with more choice.
>
> It's by Barry Schwartz who spoke at a Google Tech talk.

He has a book by that title that fleshes this out.

-- 
Andy
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