Source on Kahneman's "magical" behavior

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I had trouble finding this on the internet, so here it is. [well, not yet, but in a moment pdf]

Its important because Camerer and others have cited Kahneman's bewilderment at convergence in the market entry game, or what he calls the N* game. Besides summarizing the market entry results---in which psychologists are subverted by economics---he describes reluctance to trade and other cases of economists being subverted by psychology. The paper is short and sweet; full of lots of other good quotes. For example, he succinctly asserts a claim that Gode and Sunder fleshed out a decade: "Robots programmed to obey simple dominance would establish the optimal market price."

Kahneman, D., (1986) Experimental economics: A psychological perspective presented in Bounded Rational Behavior in experimental games and markets: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Experimental Econoimcs, Bielefeld, West Germany, Spetember 21-25, 1986. eds. R. Tietz, W. Albers, R. Selten published in Lecture notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Eds M. Beckmann and W. Krelle