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<p>would</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Richard H. Thaler&#039;&#039;&#039; (born 1945) is an American economist who helped transform the study of human decision-making from an idealized exercise in [[Expected Utility Theory|expected utility theory]] into an empirical science of actual behavior. Awarded the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, Thaler is the architect of several foundational concepts in [[Behavioral Finance|behavioral finance]] and the co-author — with [[Cass Sunstein]] — of the influential book &#039;&#039;Nudge&#039;&#039;, which brought behavioral insights into policy design. But Thaler&#039;s deeper contribution is methodological: he demonstrated that the anomalies of human choice are not noise to be filtered out but signal to be theorized.<br /> <br /> Thaler&#039;s career is defined by a sustained assault on the assumption of [[Rational Choice Theory|rational choice]]. Where traditional economics asked What</div>

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