Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why most shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one they own for less than $400.
By RICHARD H. THALER. Published: February 23, 2013. AMERICANS spend far more on health care than people in other countries and we have little to show ...
By RICHARD H. THALER. Published: August 24, 2013. I HAVE written here before about the potential gains to government from involving social and behavioral ...
By RICHARD H. THALER. Published: April 6, 2013. MANY problems are so complex that even if we had the money to fix them, we wouldn't know how to do it.
But that automatic enrollment is the key, says Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago. "The only way most humans are able to save ...
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The Winner's Curse: Anomalies in Behavioral Economics




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