Welcome to the official website of author and professor Ian Ayres.
Ian's Latest Book:
Carrots and Sticks: Unlock the Power of Incentives to Get Things Done.
Could you lose weight if you put $20,000 at risk? Would you finally set up your billing software if it meant that your favorite charity would earn a new contribution? Carrot and Sticks describes the fascinating new science of rewards and punishments—to help people and organizations meet their personal and professional goals.
Also published in 2010:
LIFECYCLE INVESTING: A New, Safe, and Audacious Way to Improve the Performance of Your Retirement Portfolio.
This book shows a new way to invest that can safely improve the size of your retirement portfolio by 60%. The big idea is time diversification. Lifecycle Investing teaches you how to better spread risk over time.
An Introduction to LIFECYCLE INVESTING
Ian co-founded a website to help you stickK to your goals:
Also by Ian: New York Times Best-Seller: SUPER CRUNCHERS: WHY THINKING-BY-NUMBERS IS THE NEW WAY TO BE SMART.
The book that shows that a new thinking by the numbers--analyzing millions of bytes of information--provides people with greater insight into human behavior and allows them to predict the future with staggeringly accurate results.