ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining Behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles.
When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers and policy makers are both profound and entertaining..
He reveals how Behavioural economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV quiz shows, sports transfer seasons, and businesses like Uber.
Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behaviour, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world.
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.
In other words, we misbehave.
Whether buying an alarm clock, selling football tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists.
Now Behavioural economics is hugely influential, changing the way we think not just about money, but about ourselves, our world and all kinds of everyday decisions.
Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy - and that we\'re error-prone individuals, not Spock-like automatons.
Behavioural economics knows better.
Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything.
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award From the renowned and entertaining Behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles
