Project Sherlock

Lecture

2018

From Cashews to Nudges: The Evolution of Behavioral Economics

Richard H. Thaler

Traces behavioural economics from an initial list of anomalies that violated standard rational-choice theory to a working alternative that treats predictable mistakes as data rather than noise to be assumed away.

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Filed under Behavioural Economics in Economics.