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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a professor of psychology at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and the author of The Paradox of Choice and The Costs of Living.

Selected bibliography

  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (2004)
  • The Costs of Living: How Market Freedom Erodes the Best Things in Life (2001)
  • Learning and Memory by Barry Schwartz and Daniel Reisberg (1991)
  • The Battle for Human Nature: Science, Morality and Modern Life (1986)
  • Behaviourism, Science and Human Nature (1982)

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