Thinking: Both Fundamental and Misunderstood

Thinking: Both Fundamental and Misunderstood

In his 2017 Nobel lecture, University of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler focused on how his native discipline, economics, lost its analytical way when economists founded their theories on methodological sand, meaning a premise of not just human rationality, but perfect rationality, in decision making. In his lecture, Thaler stressed the obvious, even to (neoclassical) economists: … Read more