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How Homo Economicus Went Extinct

Mr. Thaler calls for an “enriched approach to doing economic research, one that acknowledges the existence and relevance of Humans.” By...

Richard Thaler on Behavioral Economics, Investing

Richard Thaler, an expert on behavioral economics as well as the psychology behind decision-making, explains how the average investor can us

How To Use Behavioral Economics To Invest

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-03-04/how-to-use-behavioral-economics-to-invest Fuller & Thaler Asset Management’s David...

Top funds honored by Lipper

Fuller & Thaler's Sub-advised Small Cap Value mutual fund (Undiscovered Managers Behavioral Value Fund) wins Lipper Awards for top 3 year...

'Big Short' Professor's Fund Swells in Past Year

Richard Thaler’s cameo in the Oscar contending movie “The Big Short” was a rare moment of glamour for an economist who built his career...

Richard Thaler + IBM Watson on Behavioral Economics

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The Power of Nudges, for Good and Bad

Nudges, small design changes that can markedly affect individual behavior, have been catching on. These techniques rely on sights from...

A behavioral economist illuminates the human side of investing

What if Adam Smith had collaborated with Sigmund Freud? They might have developed the academic discipline that is known today as...

Richard Thaler’s “Misbehaving” and Implications for Investors and Advisors

Richard Thaler is out with a new book, Misbehaving, tracing his career in behavioral economics. It offers an appealing combination of...

The Economist Who Realized How Crazy We Are

There's now a fairly long list of intellectuals responsible for the spread of this subversive idea. Somewhere near the top of it is the...

Why the NFL Should Draft Value

Bargains: The first pick in the draft gets around $5 million a year, while the first pick in the second round falls to $3 million....

Dr. Richard Thaler's new book "Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics"

Release Date: May 11, 2015 https://www.amazon.com/Misbehaving-Behavioral-Economics-Richard-Thaler/dp/0393080943/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF...

How a Bowl of Cashews Changed the Way You Save for Retirement

How can I make smarter money choices? It helps to have what I call nudges. The lesson of my field, behavioral economics, is that we need...

More Kirk than Spock

Human beings are not always logical. We treat windfall gains differently from our monthly salary. We value things that we already own...

Invest like Spock, Not Homer Simpson

Behavioral economists argue that investors' frequent lapses in judgement combined with her mentality can have serious repercussions on...

Bloomberg names Thaler one of the Markets Most Influential

The 50 Most Influential follow many paths to power. They sway economic policy, manage money, define banking, invent the future. Here's a...

Managers Find Bad Investment Behavior Can Yield Better Returns

Here's a compelling question: Can you profit from others' irrational investment mistakes?

Obama speaks at Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony

Now, all of us have moments when we look back and wonder, “What the heck was I thinking?” I have that — (laughter) — quite a bit. ...

Interview with Richard Thaler

We are rational, self-interested optimizers: Homo economicus. So the neoclassical model of economics has held for over a century. It has...