Nobel in Economics Is Awarded to Richard Thaler (Published 2017)

The economist Richard H. Thaler at his home in Chicago on Monday after winning the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He said he would try to spend the prize money “as irrationally as possible.”Credit...Anne Ryan/University of Chicago, via Reuters WASHINGTON — Richard H. Thaler, whose work has persuaded many economists to pay more attention to human behavior, and many governments to p