Experts explore people's tendency to work against their own best interests. The SEC Historical Society, the online archive of the Securities and Exchange Commission is hosting an web-based seminar on behavioral economics later this month to explore the links between psychology and economics, and how cognitive and emotional processes influence -- or subvert -- rational decision making.

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The live webcast at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday, 19 September will feature Georgetown Law Center professor Donald Langevoort and George Washington University Law School professor Theresa Gabaldon in a "fireside chat" on the theory and practice of behavioral economics.

The seminar is open to everyone free of charge.

Anyone with questions on behavioral economics for Langevoort and Gabaldon should email them to Carla Rosati, executive director of the SEC Historial Society, by 14 September. -FWR

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