Agents Quote by 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

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

— Richard Thaler

We don't do things the same way everyone else does. We relish being different. We see that difference as an element that makes us…

— Reggie Fils-Aime

“The evidence presents a profound challenge to the idea that humans have consistent preferences and know how to maximize them, a cornerstone of the…

— Daniel Kahneman

We're all different. Some people are musicians, some people are actors, some people are agents and some people are accountants... We're all different.

— Anthony Hopkins

“It is telling commentary on economic orthodoxy that a whole subdiscipline--behavioral economics--and a raft of lab experiments are needed to show that humans often…

— Kaushik Basu

How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?

— Charlie Munger

“From this failure to expunge the microeconomic foundations of neoclassical economics from post-Great Depression theory arose the "microfoundations of macroeconomics" debate, which ultimately led…

— Steve Keen

People behave agentically, but they produce theories that afford people very little agency.

— Albert Bandura

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think and act…

— Richard R. Nelson

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Not ever having been an agent myself, my sense is that upper-level agents who have the most power, who can move people through the…

— John Landgraf