Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2024-07-15
Books mentioned on EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)
You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done.
Stephen Dubner discussed Summary of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard Thaler and others and Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler. Richard Thaler discussed General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money by John Maynard Keynes and Foundations of Economic Analysis by Paul Anthony Samuelson.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Summary of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Discussed“Over time however failor work came to be tolerated if not outright accepted along the way he wrote A Few books including misbehaving the making of behaviorally econom I omics and nudge improving decisions about health wealth and happiness today governments around the world are running so-called nudge units”
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Misbehaving
Discussed“Over time however failor work came to be tolerated if not outright accepted along the way he wrote A Few books including misbehaving the making of behaviorally econom I omics and nudge improving decisions about health wealth and happiness”
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General Theory Of Employment , Interest And Money
Discussed“the single best chapter on behavioral Finance was written by John Maynard kees in the general theory which was written in 1936”
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Foundations of Economic Analysis
Discussed“and samelson in particular he was a University of Chicago undergraduate and then went off to graduate school and his thesis was called foundations of economic analysis so all he did was redo all of Economics properly”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Misbehaving
“Along the way, he wrote a few books, including 'Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics' and 'Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness.'”
Passing Foundations of Economic Analysis
“And it was led by people like Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, and Samuelson in particular, he was a University of Chicago undergraduate and then went off to graduate school, and his thesis was called 'Foundations of Economic Analysis.'”