Behavioral economist who worked with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky to define the field; president of the American Economic Association in 2015.
University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessFuller & Thaler Asset Management
Papers & Books page, Chicago Booth
The Anomalies series and Nudge are the primary sources for behavioral economics as an applied discipline in finance and public policy.
6 books of their own · 4 articles
Edited volume.
Nudge: The Final Edition published 2021.
Recommended by: Tristan Harris
How behavioural economics was built against economists who assumed rational agents.
“He opens his new book, Misbehaving, with Vilfredo Pareto's assertion” — Howard Marks
Source: Oaktree memo 'On the Couch'
Recommended by: Howard Marks, Peter Mallouk, Tyler Cowen
Quasi Rational Economics | – | 1991 | – | |
The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life | – | 1992 | T4 | – |
Advances in Behavioral Finance | Edited volume. | 1993 | T4 | – |
Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II | Edited volume. | 2005 | T4 | – |
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness | Nudge: The Final Edition published 2021. | 2008 | T3 | Tristan Harris |
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics | How behavioural economics was built against economists who assumed rational agents. | 2015 | T2 | Howard Marks, Peter Mallouk, Tyler Cowen |
| From Cashews to Nudges: The Evolution of Behavioral Economics (Nobel Prize lecture) | The Nobel Foundation | Article | 2017 |
| Save More Tomorrow: Using Behavioral Economics to Increase Employee Saving | Journal of Political Economy (with Shlomo Benartzi) | Research paper | 2004 |
| Anomalies: The Equity Premium Puzzle | Journal of Economic Perspectives (with Jeremy J. Siegel) | Research paper | 1997 |
| Anomalies: The Winner's Curse | Journal of Economic Perspectives | Research paper | 1988 |
| Class, Behave! | Chicago Booth Review | 2018 |
| Why Richard Thaler Deserved the Nobel in Economics Paywall | The Atlantic | 2017 |
| A Bowl of Cashews with Professor Richard H. Thaler | Chicago Booth Review | 2015 |