STICERD Atkinson Lecture - Cognitive Economics

An alternative strategy is to start with regularities of human cognition, such as perception, attention, and memory, and to derive how people represent problems, form beliefs, and make choices from those foundations.  This approach unifies theoretically a broad range of puzzling findings, and incorporates new strategies of measurement and prediction.  We illustrate the ideas of cognitive economics with examples of finance, macroeconomics, labor economics, political economy, and risk assessment using both experimental and field data.

Andrei Shleifer is John L Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University. He has worked in the areas of comparative corporate governance, law and finance, behavioural finance, as well as institutional economics. He has published seven books and is an Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and a fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Finance Association. Shleifer is a previous winner of the John Bates Clark medal of the American Economic Association.  According to RePEc, Shleifer is the most cited economist in the world.

The event will be chaired by Camille Landais, Professor of Econmics and director of STICERD, LSE.

This public event is free and open to all. 

This event will be a hybrid event, with an in-person audience in the LSE's Hong Kong Theatre and an online audience.

For the online event:, please register via Zoom. For the in-person event, please register here.