STOCKHOLM – The Nobel prize in economics was awarded Monday to Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago for research showing how people’s choices on economic matters – whether on savings or game ...

As the column’s name suggests, Thaler set out to challenge standard economic thinking by testing economic anomalies—in other words, what happens when our irrational, some might say human, selves are ...

Robin Young moderates a conversation between Richard Thaler and Daniel Gilbert about Thaler's new book "Misbehaving." Richard Thaler And 'The Making Of Behavioral Economics' Richard Thaler is one of ...

“Behavioral economics is just economists stealing from psychology,” Thaler joked. He went on to explain that one way behavioral economics is distinctive is that is operates in the context of markets.

Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick held a virtual conference on behavioral finance that attracted several hundred participants from around the world. The highlight of the program was a ...

Barry speaks with Richard Thaler and Alex Imas award winning economists and co-authors of "The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies". They discuss the psychology of spending at auctions, and ...

Discover how behavioral economics examines psychological influences on economic decision-making, diverging from traditional ...

We speak with the Nobel Prize-winning founder of behavioral economics about the new — and last — version of his classic book, Nudge. Sure, the book Nudge may have become a cultural phenomenon that ...

Hello, and welcome to Morningstar. I'm Valerio Baselli. Today, I'm very pleased and honored to receive a real pioneer in behavioral economics, the father of the Nudge theory, professor at the ...

The term refers to what we have internalized as the fair price for a product or service. It’s often out of sync with what things now actually cost. By Talmon Joseph Smith Our columnist spoke with a ...

Richard Thaler knows a few things about the wisdom of crowds, but what he's seeing in some areas of the stock market has the Nobel economist dismayed. The University of Chicago Booth professor is ...