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 substance as well as story.

• 2

  The prose and structure earn a second look after the final page.

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  A strong entry point for literary fiction on your reading list.

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  ZKChatbot highlights it for balanced, high-quality discovery.