Automatic Quote by Richard Thaler

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

— Richard Thaler

It is true that I am one of the co-authors of 'Nudge,' and I am a behavioral economist, but it does not mean that…

— Richard Thaler

The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need to understand the ways in which we differ from the rational human assumed…

— Richard Thaler

Behavioral economics offers a plausible explanation for overreactions by the market. For example, a long period of bad performance can lead to stereotyping.

— Richard Thaler

In the world of traditional economics, it shouldn't matter whether you use an opt-in or opt-out system. So long as the costs of registering…

— Richard Thaler

Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to…

— Richard Thaler

Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring…

— Richard Thaler

One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

— Dan Ariely

There is such a polarized discussion of economics among people like analysts, columnists, bloggers; often, they end up just saying that views other than…

— Adam Davidson

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

— Robert J. Shiller

I feel like there's lot of people who know finance and economics better than I do. There are lots of people who are better…

— David Plotz

Entrepreneurship isn't for everyone, and not everyone is going to be an entrepreneur, but women who turn to business, turn to economics, because there…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon