Matthew G Nagler @matthewgnagler

Golden Balls, Human Behavior, and Cognitive Flexibility: Matthew Nagler on PYP 628 - Plant Yourself What can a game show teach us about human nature, and how to balance individual vs social needs and pressure?

I "continue as a guest" on the Plant Yourself Podcast with Howie Jacobson. In this episode, we range over the landscape of behavioral economics, pausing briefly to talk about my new work on cognitive flexibility.

We also talk about Golden Balls. Wouldn’t you? plantyourself.com/golden-balls...

11.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fall is here and I am once again teaching micro to grad students

05.09.2025 12:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Drum Roll, Please…

Is the suspense killing you? 🥁

It must be time to read the latest edition of Zen and Economics! open.substack.com/pub/matthewg...

22.08.2025 11:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don't Be a Stranger Cognitive flexibility is not a sin

In the US we celebrate tech moguls who “move fast & break things,” yet we struggle with whether someone should have the right to declare their own gender identity

My most recent Substack gets to the bottom of our conflicted ideas on cognitive flexibility: matthewgnagler.substack.com/p/dont-be-a-...

28.07.2025 17:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not making light of this, but it does sound like what happened to Chief White Halfoat in Catch 22.

19.07.2025 16:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Katie Orenstein of the Op Ed Project

The idea that journalism can be transformative is grounded in a sort of behavioral economics.

The narratives we employ influence our thoughts and so inevitably our choices (by way of our preferences).

Here’s what I wrote on the broader economics of this: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

08.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

At the library in Telluride, Colorado

13.05.2025 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Going to miss Boulder

03.05.2025 22:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Greetings from Wyoming

07.04.2025 17:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seen in Denver #streetcommentary

03.04.2025 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’ll bet you DOGE has some problems with base rate neglect too

28.03.2025 21:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cautionary tale of what happens when you place a department in receivership for not toeing the line

21.03.2025 23:26 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying " you gotta admit dumbledore 's got style " ALT: two men are standing next to each other and one of them is saying " you gotta admit dumbledore 's got style "

18.03.2025 19:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

MSU Econ making a rather low-tech use of the word influencer here… as a synonym essentially for, well, teacher and researcher?

18.03.2025 18:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sending an appreciation card to a friend who’s working in the Federal Government.

Our personal expressions of moral support matter right now. Let’s get them through this.

17.03.2025 19:56 — 👍 15 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Not sure I want my coffee “brazen”

15.03.2025 14:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A good morning from Crested Butte

15.03.2025 14:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Back to Crested Butte. Winter not over yet! ❄️

15.03.2025 02:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There was an executive order against wearing socks with sandles.

14.03.2025 18:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Economic efficiency ftw

13.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Damn, I did have a really upscale poutine in Toronto in the vicinity of Kensington Market, but it was 2010 and I can’t remember the name of the place.

13.03.2025 13:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You need to get it somewhere good. (Not just, say, Tim Horton’s.) May I suggest the cheesesteak poutine at the Elgin Street Diner in Ottawa? Top it with a few shakes of chipotle Tabasco. 👌🏼

13.03.2025 13:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I liked Sam Altman for about 5 minutes

13.03.2025 02:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0