Daniel Kahneman on Confidence

Daniel Kahneman, 2002 Nobel Prize winner, is out with a new book and it is excerpted in the New York Times - this could be a good read for students in a unit on behavioral economics.  Also, in the New York Times in a interview with Kahneman from when he won the prize. 

Microscopic Microeconomics - Psych & Econ

The New York Times has a short piece called Microscopic Microeconomics on the brain science behind economic decision making - particularly in regard to investment decisions and speculative bubbles. While there are a lot of sources of this information out there, this is a nice short piece that goes into the brain science behind behavioral economics.