Richard H. Thaler
Autore di Nudge. La spinta gentile. La nuova strategia per migliorare le nostre decisioni su denaro, salute, felicità
Sull'Autore
Richard H. Thaler a professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He lives in Chicago.
Fonte dell'immagine: Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (link)
Opere di Richard H. Thaler
Opere correlate
This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Collaboratore — 800 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1945-09-12
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- East Orange, New Jersey, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Istruzione
- Case Western Reserve University (BA)
University of Rochester (M.Sc. ∙ PhD)
Newark Academy - Attività lavorative
- professor (behavioral science ∙ economics)
economist - Relazioni
- Sunstein, Cass R. (friend, coauthor)
Kahneman, Daniel (collaborator, coauthor) - Organizzazioni
- University of Chicago (Booth School of Business|Center for Decision Research)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nobel Prize (Economics, 2017, contributions to behavioral economics)
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Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 10
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 5,263
- Popolarità
- #4,742
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 86
- ISBN
- 104
- Lingue
- 17
- Preferito da
- 4
The story starts with Thaler as a young economist, noting that his professors didn’t think he would amount to much. He starts working with psychologists on the fringe of what’s expected in economics, pushing the envelope on disproving the basis theories of economics that you would have learned in high school. But humans don’t behave like ‘Econs’, those rational, selfless beings. They can be lazy (something Thaler calls himself several times) and they make mistakes. They will travel extra to save $10 on a $500 purchase, but not on a $30 purchase (which is just bad maths). They have biases and are more willing to take risks if they are losing to even the stakes (which makes no sense). It’s an insight into how we all behave at various times – inconsistently and with varying fairness. Thaler follows this through with multiple examples and experiments as the book travels through his career. It starts with everyday issues and continues into the world of finance, looking at the stock market and other areas. (This wasn’t my favourite area of the book, maybe because I don’t work in the area but it did raise a lot of points about value and investment). There is a relatively small part about nudge economics in the UK to gently direct people into making correct choices (you can read more in the book Nudge). However, I really enjoyed the stories about the university faculty choosing their new offices and the draft for American football. All totally relatable and apply to other sports with drafts too.
Thaler writes with a hefty dose of humour. I took this book to the hairdresser and didn’t expect to be laughing so much. It’s easy to understand and read, with multiple diagrams to highlight certain experiments as well as references should you want to look anything up in more detail. It’s probably not the book to start with if you have no economics background at all, but if you know a bit about traditional economics you’ll love how Thaler pokes fun at it.
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