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What economists get wrong about personal finance

6 mins | Jan 21, 2023

The financial advice given by academics often doesn't quite work in the real world, but why is this? Using his graduate misfortune as an example, Tim Harford explores this puzzling phenomenon to determine what standard economic advice is getting wrong.