May Contain Lies - How Stories, Statistics Studies Exploit Our Biases And What We Can

A road map for how to separate myths from the real thing and come to a better understanding of the world, drawing on the approaches of academic research. [Edmans] is well placed to share what professional thinkers can teach us about examining our subjectivity to think more clearly about topics from income disparity to cancer cures>

About the author

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. His TED talk 'What to Trust in a Post-Truth World' has been viewed 2 million times. He has also spoken at Davos and Google. In 2013, he was awarded tenure at The Wharton School and in 2021, was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets and Quants. Edmans writes regularly for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Harvard Business Review. His first book Grow the Pie (Cambridge University Press) was a Financial Times Book of the Year.

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A powerful and punchy explanation of why misinformation is a problem that affects us all - be that in finance, politics, media, business or anywhere else. Edmans offers clear ideas about how to counter this, not just in our own lives but also across society as a whole. Timely and very provocative! Gillian Tett Editor-at-Large, Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: Alex Edmans
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.04.2025
• EAN: 9780241630181
• ISBN: 978-0-241-63018-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 199 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business: general, reference works; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Popular psychology, Business & management, Behavioural economics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Disinformation and misinformation, Social research and statistics, Cultural and media studies