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1. www.tandfonline.com › doi › fullRichard H. Thaler: A Nobel Prize for Behavioural Economics

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   Oct 4, 2018 · Although Thaler has displayed a knack for spotting engaging anomalies, he has not called upon a very wide range of sources in decision sciences and psychology to develop a deep understanding of how the human mind has adapted to deal with life’s challenges.

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2. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu › podcast › knowledge-atHow Richard Thaler’s ‘Simple Insights’ Led to a Nobel Prize

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   Oct 10, 2017 · Wharton's Katherine Milkman discusses the awarding of the Nobel Prize to behavioral economist Richard H. Thaler. Richard H. Thaler, the “father of behavioral economics,” has this week won the ...

3. link.springer.com › article › 10Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving : The Making of Behavioral ...

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   Sep 14, 2015 · Thaler has no discussion on the adaptive nature of the human mind, or, on how individuals learn by repeating interactions in a particular context, as demonstrated through experiments (List 2004). The third problem with the book is in the policy prescriptions to fix the deviations of Humans from Econs .

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4. www.nobelprize.org › prizes › economic-sciencesRichard H. Thaler – Facts - NobelPrize.org

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   Richard H. Thaler. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017. Born: 12 September 1945, East Orange, NJ, USA. Affiliation at the time of the award: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Prize motivation: “for his contributions to behavioural economics”. Prize share: 1/1.

5. www.nature.com › articles › s41562/017/0252-9The rise of behavioural economics | Nature Human Behaviour

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   Nov 7, 2017 · In neoclassical economics, individuals are rational utility maximizers, making inferences and decisions on the basis of perfect information. In its current incarnation, behavioural economics arose ...

6. www.forbes.com › sites › katevitasekRichard Thaler And The 'Human Factor' In Economics - Forbes

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   Oct 10, 2017 · Richard H. Thaler's Nobel Prize in Economic Science underscores the importance of instilling “psychologically realistic assumptions” into analyses of economic decision-making. His work ...

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   Does Thaler know how the human mind adapts to life's challenges?

   • Although Thaler has displayed a knack for spotting engaging anomalies, he has not called upon a very wide range of sources in decision sciences and psychology to develop a deep understanding of how the human mind has adapted to deal with life’s challenges.

   Richard H. Thaler: A Nobel Prize for Behavioural Economics

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   Is Thaler a behavioral scientist?

   • Knowledge at Wharton: Thaler won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in behavioral economics, but as we were talking earlier you noted he considers himself a behavioral scientist. Can you talk about the distinctions there?

   How Richard Thaler’s ‘Simple Insights’ Led to a Nobel Prize

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   What does Thaler say about human behavior?

   • In other words, though Thaler’s behavioral economics inhabits the word of Humans, the normative standard of how we “should” act is to mimic Econs. He envisages a world of aspiring Mr. Spocks. This becomes clear in the title itself. As Humans we are misbehaving, against the standard “good behavior” of Econs.

   Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving : The Making of Behavioral Economics

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   Is Richard Thaler a behavioral economist?

   • So Richard Thaler often refers to himself not only as a behavioral economist but as a behavioral scientist, because there’s a community that includes many who aren’t economists who are doing this work that is spurred by his ideas, his thinking about peculiarities of human behavior that aren’t captured by economic science.

   How Richard Thaler’s ‘Simple Insights’ Led to a Nobel Prize

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   Why did Richard Thaler write his autobiography?

   • At some level it took a personality like Richard Thaler; he’s someone who likes to break the mold and misbehave, which is the title of his autobiography. It took someone like that to point out the absurdity of the assumptions in a standard economic model, and help change the assumptions so that we could start doing the science better.

   How Richard Thaler’s ‘Simple Insights’ Led to a Nobel Prize

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   Why did Richard Thaler win a Nobel Prize?

   • The Nobel committee, announcing the award in Stockholm, credited Professor Thaler with taking the behavioral field from the fringe to the academic mainstream. “In order to do good economics, you have to keep in mind that people are human.” CHICAGO, IL - OCTOBER 09: University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel prize ... [+]

   Richard Thaler And The 'Human Factor' In Economics - Forbes

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8. www.nobelprize.org › uploads › 2018Richard H. Thaler - Prize Lecture in Economic Sciences 2017

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   Prize Lecture, December 8, 2017 by Richard H. Thaler1 University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, IL, USA. in the beginning there were stories. People think in stories, or at least I do. My research in the field now known as behavioral economics started from real life stories I observed while I was a graduate student at the ...