Misbehaving
The Making of Behavioral Economics
by Richard H. Thaler
Recommended by Peter Mallouk and Richard Thaler
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Economy, Behavioral Economics, and Marketing.
Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans?predictable, errorprone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth?and change the way we think about economics, ourselves...
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