Michael Fortunato
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Location | Upstate NY and Western NE, United States |
| Introduction | I was trained as an economist (Columbia, A.B, Harvard, A.M. and Ph.D.) and was once a corporate strategist. I have spent the last decade focused on decision theory, complex problem solving, and behavioral economics, with a special interest in the prospects for long-run cooperation in complex social, organizational, and market interactions. After rehabiliation from cancer surgery in the summer of 2009, I returned to competition as a discus thrower, and was happy to regain my position on the world list. However, a torn rotator cuff tendon in the summer of 2011 forced me to find a new way to throw. I am now able to once again throw competitively, but with an odd style. This handicap has forced me to delve very much more deeply into the physics and bio-mechanics of discus throwing, for which I am now, after much work, appreciative. |
| Interests | Common decision making errors and ideas for improving decision making and judgment, socio-economic justice, rational-sustainable public policy, threats of global warming, promising policy initiatives that help close gaps between the private and public interest, methods for closing the gap between economic agents as envisioned by traditional economic theory and actual human beings, the ethics of global behavior, the rise of fascism in the US, and animal welfare. |