Richard H. Thaler

Charles R Walgreen Distinguished Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

1967, BA, Case Western Reserve University; 1970, MA and 1974, PhD, University of Rochester. 1988-95, Henrietta Johnson Louis Professor of Economics, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University. Since 1995, Charles Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, Booth School of Business University of Chicago; Principal, Fuller and Thaler Asset Management, San Mateo, California. 2015, President American Economic Association. Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Co-author of Nudge (2008) and author of Misbehaving (2015). Nobel Laureate in Economic Science (2017).

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