Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics

Title: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics Author: Richard H Thaler ISBN: 9780393352795 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Published: 2016 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: Used: Near Fine Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders. G 1664951 Publisher Description: Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans--predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth--and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world. Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like