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Misbehaving

Richard H. Thaler

Economics & FinancePsychology
Publish date
2015
Publisher
Einaudi
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Misbehaving examines the origins and development of behavioral economics through the perspective of Richard Thaler. The book explores how psychological factors lead people to consistently deviate from the rational decision-making assumed by traditional economic models. It covers research, historical debates within the discipline, and the application of these behavioral concepts to finance and public policy.
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  1. Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

    Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky

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    The seminal collection of papers that inspired Thaler to integrate cognitive psychology into economics.

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  2. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

    Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

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    Thaler's prior co-authored work applying behavioral economics principles to policy and choice architecture.

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  3. Essays in Positive Economics

    Milton Friedman

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    Critiques Friedman's influential 'as if' methodology justifying unrealistic rational choice assumptions in economics.

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  4. The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life

    Richard H. Thaler

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    Thaler's earlier collection of regular Journal of Economic Perspectives columns documenting behavioral anomalies.

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  5. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

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    Explores the dual-system cognitive psychology that underpins the behavioral anomalies Thaler details.

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  6. Choices, Values, and Frames

    Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky

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    Foundational collection of prospect theory and framing papers central to Thaler's work.

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  7. The Theory of Interest

    Irving Fisher

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    Discussed as an early economic work recognizing behavioral aspects of intertemporal choice and impatience.

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  8. The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

    John Maynard Keynes

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    Cited for early insights on animal spirits, convention, and stock market beauty contests.

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  9. Behavioral Game Theory: Experiments in Strategic Interaction

    Colin F. Camerer

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    Synthesizes empirical departures from standard game theory discussed extensively in the narrative.

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  10. Foundations of Economic Analysis

    Paul A. Samuelson

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    Represents the mathematical neoclassical orthodoxy against which behavioral economics pushed back.

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  11. The Theory of Moral Sentiments

    Adam Smith

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    Cited to show classical economics originally recognized human passions and bounded willpower.

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  12. Quasi Rational Economics

    Richard H. Thaler

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    Thaler's academic compendium of earlier research papers establishing the foundations of the field.

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