Book Review: Misbehaving

Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler

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When I think of “economic theory” I recall high school lectures in Econ class that included discussions of Supply and Demand lines along with faint memories of marginal utility curves. The history of economic theory led to an abundance of optimization problems that solved for the ideal methods rational humans used to make decisions. However…