Richard H. Thaler
Behavioral economist and professor
Richard H. Thaler is an American economist who won the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in behavioral economics. He wrote Nudge with Cass Sunstein.
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American Born 1945 in East Orange, United States
About Richard H. Thaler
Richard H. Thaler was born on September 12, 1945, in East Orange, New Jersey. He is an American economist and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he holds the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor title. He served as president of the American Economic Association in 2015. Thaler works in behavioral economics, a field that draws on both psychology and economics. He has worked alongside Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky and other scholars to help define that field. In 2017 he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the field, and in 2018 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. His books include Nudge, written with Cass Sunstein, and The Winner's Curse. He has also written Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, and has been one of the economists writing the Economic View column in the Sunday New York Times.