Misbehaving

Editorial review

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler tells the story of how a small, scrappy field built itself from a list of empirical anomalies — behaviors traditional economic models could not account for — into a discipline that now influences governments, firms, and how we model human beings.

Summary

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler tells the story of how a small, scrappy field built itself from a list of empirical anomalies — behaviors traditional economic models could not account for — into a discipline that now influences governments, firms, and how we model human beings.

Key takeaways

• 1

  Misbehaving rewards readers who want depth as well as momentum.

• 2

  The atmosphere and prose earn a second look after the final chapter.

• 3

  A strong literary fiction discovery on Isahe.

• 4

  Isahe highlights it for balanced, premium editorial curation.