340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard.

You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done. The founder of behavioral economics describes his unlikely route to success; his reputation for being lazy; and his efforts to fix the world — one nudge at a time.

Episode 340 of the Freakonomics Radio podcast, hosted by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher, titled "340. People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard." was published on July 12, 2018 and runs 57 minutes.

July 12, 2018 ·57m · Freakonomics Radio

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You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done. The founder of behavioral economics describes his unlikely route to success; his reputation for being lazy; and his efforts to fix the world — one nudge at a time.

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