Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2022-01-01
Steve Levitt & Richard Thaler: books mentioned on People I (Mostly) Admire #58
Why Is Richard Thaler Such a ****ing Optimist? | People I (Mostly) Admire | Episode 58
Steve Levitt recommended Misbehaving by Richard H. Thaler, and discussed Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and others, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and others, Superfreakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and others, and Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Nudge
Discussed“I still remember the moment when you told me you were going to write the book Nudge”
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Freakonomics
Discussed“Freakonomics had come out two years earlier and had been a big success”
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Superfreakonomics
Discussed“Jasper didn't interview me Jen Stewart read for economics and super Freakonomics and internalized them and had a conversation with me off air that made me think he was one of the smartest people I had ever met”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“books like thinking fast and slow which is Danny's popular book have managed to convince lay people that behavioral economics is the most powerful tool one has ever encountered”
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Misbehaving
Recommended“I suspect you'd also enjoy Richard's semi-autobiographical book entitled misbehaving the making of Behavioral economics”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Misbehaving
“I wrote a chapter about that in my other book misbehaving”
Passing Freakonomics
“The Hidden Side of Everything”