Richard Zeckhauser on Optimism, Paltering, and Eating Sushi

Richard Zeckhauser, Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, at Harvard Kennedy School, sits down with Aroop Mukharji to talk about everything from how to test your optimism to eating salmon and saving the Air Force money.

Watch the video clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bnyIjqKl40&list=PLp1QSxtgPnf5jtL09yzdIlpSuNMOijtm9&index=2

Zeckhauser’s Paper on Paltering: http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/rzeckhau/paltering.pdf

Original Release Date: March 1, 2016