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Bob Simison profiles MIT behavioral economist Sendhil Mullainathan, who is leading his discipline into the age of algorithms AI is just too important to leave to computer scientists. So says MIT ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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