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Traditional Economics Assumes Rational Actors. Early In His Research, Thaler Realized These Spock-like Automatons Were Nothing Like Real People. Whether Buying A Clock Radio, Selling Basketball Tickets, Or Applying For A Mortgage, We All Succumb To Biases And Make Decisions That Deviate From The Standards Of Rationality Assumed By Economists. In Other Words, We Misbehave. More Importantly, Our Misbehavior Has Serious Consequences. Dismissed At First By Economists As An Amusing Sideshow, The Study Of Human Miscalculations And Their Effects On Markets Now Drives Efforts To Make Better Decisions In Our Lives, Our Businesses, And Our Governments--amazon.com. Argues That Economical Trends Cannot Be Predicted As Much As Thought, Mainly Because Humans Are So Unpredictable, And Reveals How Behavioral Economic Analysis Opens Up New Ways To Look At Everything From Household Finance To Assigning Faculty Offices In A New Building. Preface -- I. Beginnings: 1970-78 -- 1. Supposedly Irrelevant Factors -- 2. The Endowment Effect -- 3. The List -- 4. Value Theory -- 5. California Dreamin' -- 6. The Gauntlet -- Ii. Mental Accounting: 1979-85 -- 7. Bargains And Rip-offs -- 8. Sunk Costs -- 9. Bucket

Who reads Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics,Thaler?

Author

Richard H.,W. W. Norton & Company

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton & Company

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393352795

Category

science

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Science

Rating

4.14 / 5 (1,755 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14