Richard H. Thaler
Richard H. Thaler is the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the 2017 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics.
Thaler is a member of the National Academy of Science, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Finance Association and the Econometrics Society, and in 2015 served as the president of the American Economic Association.
Before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1995, Thaler taught at the University of Rochester and Cornell, as well as visiting stints at the University of British Columbia, the Sloan School of Management at MIT, the Russell Sage Foundation and the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.
Originally from New Jersey, Thaler attended Case Western Reserve University, where he received a bachelor's degree in 1967. Soon after, he attended the University of Rochester, where he received a master's degree in 1970 and a PhD in 1974. He joined the Chicago Booth faculty in 1995.
Richard H. Thaler
Dec 13, 2010
I have now had a chance to read through the contributions to this event and have a few thoughts to share. I cannot, of course, reply to everything that has been said here, and in any case, most of what I would say already appears in print. Before getting into specifics let me say one ... Richard Thaler’s Rejoinder to the TOTM Free to Choose Symposium
