Link to play Dan Ariely talk at TED click here Read more at Dan Ariely's blog Are we going to forget what we just learned? 28th April 2009, 08:52 am Paul Krugman published an op-ed yesterday about exec salaries . The very sad conclusion he comes to is that because the financial markets seem to be on an improving trajectory (although it is hard to know if this reflects a real improvements in the economy yet) the push to reform the banks could die off. As Krugman puts it: “In 2008, overpaid bankers taking big risks with other people’s money brought the world economy to its knees. The last thing we need is to give them a chance to do it all over again.” We are now in a unique point in time where we just realized the mess we got ourselves into by assuming that the markets will be perfectly rational — and I sure hope we are not going to forget this painful lesson just because the market seem to be slightly higher these days. In...