Daniel F. Stone

I've been teaching in the Economics department at Bowdoin since 2012 and prior to that I was assistant professor at Oregon State University from 2008-2012. My courses here are on microeconomics, behavioral economics, information and uncertainty, and game theory. Besides the standard material I generally try to stress two relatively non-standard lessons: 1) be Bayesian; 2) internalize your externalities. My research is on belief formation, political media, polarization, and inter-personal hostility (a.k.a. affective polarization). I'm optimistic about this being typically due to misunderstanding (and therefore being usually resolvable), based on both personal experience and my research. I served with Americorps and worked for Novantas (consulting) between college and grad school, and am originally from Charlottesville, VA (and miss the old UVA pep band). 

I've written a (non-technical) book (Amazon link) on the behavioral economics of affective polarization. There's an open-access e-version and any $ I receive from sales of hard copies will be donated to anti-polarization organizations. Interviews etc on the book here, here, here, here, and here, and TEDX talk (!) here. My recommendations for related books on polarization in the US here.

Please check out my research-service website Media Trades (http://mediatrades.org/). More info here. Don't hesitate to let me know if you have any questions about using it.

on twitter/x (mostly inactive) @d_f_stone and BlueSky @dfstone

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