Economics Without Data: How Historical Risk Reveals Hidden Patterns in Decision-Making

16/11/2025 52 min
Economics Without Data: How Historical Risk Reveals Hidden Patterns in Decision-Making

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Episode Synopsis

Dr. Remy Levin, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, discusses his innovative research on measuring risk preferences historically, exploring how economic decision-making can be understood beyond the constraints of modern data. Can we reconstruct how people in history perceived and managed risk? This conversation dives into the innovative methods for estimating historical risk preferences, linking economic history, behavioral economics, and cognitive science to better understand decision-making across time.

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