This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Richard Thaler, a University of Chicago economist who pioneered the path-breaking field of behavioural economics – a discipline at the ...

Ring your broker and tell him to put the lot in equities. Then forget about it, relax and sleep well, says Richard Thaler. Two years ago I gave a talk at a super high-powered event on how the ...

Shaped by the field-defining work of University of Chicago scholar and Nobel laureate Richard Thaler, behavioral economics examines the differences between what people “should” do and what they ...

Our editor in chief, Merryn Somerset Webb, interviewed Richard Thaler back in September 2015. Watch the video of that here. This week, Richard Thaler won the Nobel prize for economics. Thaler's ...

Prof. Richard Thaler received a Nobel Prize in 2017 as one of the founding figures of behavioral economics, a growing field aimed at understanding why we make the decisions we do and even how to ...

W.W. Norton & Company Inc, New York, 2014, 432 pp., $27.95. Behavioral economics sees the world as full of humans, not “econs,” in the language Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein popularized in Nudge, ...

Richard Thaler doesn’t take himself too seriously, he laughs a lot, answers questions with stories, and his office has an eclectic feeling of being both an academic space and something fun. He admits ...

American economist and Nobel laureate Richard Thaler outlined mental accounting as the process by which people code, categorize, and weigh economic outcomes. Thaler also developed nudge theory to ...