WASHINGTON – People make poor economic choices. They don't save enough for retirement. They refuse to cut their losses on plummeting investments. They buy houses and stocks when prices are high, ...

A Hennepin County grand jury has indicted 28-year-old Julissa Thaler on two counts of murder, one in the first-degree and one in the second-degree, for the death of her son Eli Hart in May 2022. In ...

Richard Thaler, who earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Adelbert College, earned the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to the field of behavioral ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Those who work in newspaper newsrooms generally aren’t in the habit of thinking of themselves as artists, and Sentinel photographer Shmuel Thaler is no different in that regard. He’s ...

“We didn’t invent nudging. We just coined the term for it.” Booth School of Business professor Richard Thaler and Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein, coauthors of the bestseller Nudge: Improving ...

In a perfect world of economic intelligence, Richard Thaler notes, we would all make decisions like the famous "Star Trek" character Mr. Spock, where nearly everything is carefully analyzed. "But I ...

American Richard Thaler won the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for upending the longstanding notion that individuals make rational decisions about their futures and finances and helping to develop ...

The 2017 Nobel prize in economics has been awarded to University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler for his work in behavioral economics. The Nobel committee called Thaler a “pioneer,” paving the way ...

Paul Solman: Earlier this month, I was pleased to learn that one of the most intriguing economists of my career span, the University of Chicago’s Richard Thaler, had entered the rotation of the NYT’s ...

STOCKHOLM — University of Chicago academic Richard Thaler was awarded the Nobel prize for economics on Monday. The $1.1-million prize was given to the American for his "understanding the psychology of ...