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Richard Thaler

1945 - Today

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Richard H. Thaler (; born September 12, 1945) is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association. Thaler is a theorist in behavioral economics who has collaborated with Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and others in further defining that field. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Thaler has received more than 1,966,599 page views. Her biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Richard Thaler is the 83rd most popular economist (down from 79th in 2019), the 1,101st most popular biography from United States (down from 992nd in 2019) and the 21st most popular American Economist.

Richard Thaler is most famous for his work in behavioral economics, which is the study of how people's emotions and psychology influence their economic decisions.

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Richard Thaler ranks 83 out of 414. Before her are Eugen Dühring, Reinhard Selten, James Mill, Jean-Claude Trichet, Thomas Mun, and Franz Oppenheimer. After her are Edmund Phelps, Lawrence Klein, James M. Buchanan, Alfred Weber, Charles Cooley, and William Vickrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Richard Thaler ranks 62. Before her are Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Laurent Gbagbo, Alexey Ekimov, Itzhak Perlman, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, and Bette Midler. After her are Moncef Marzouki, Hasan Akhund, Ken Hensley, Carmen Maura, Haris Silajdžić, and Dennis Rader.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Thaler ranks 1,101 out of 20,380. Before her are Arthur Ashe (1943), Joanne Woodward (1930), Betty White (1922), Stephen Covey (1932), Dean Reed (1938), and Linda McCartney (1941). After her are Laura Bush (1946), Robert Vaughn (1932), Idina Menzel (1971), Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1944), George Jung (1942), and Mary Ainsworth (1913).

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Among ECONOMISTS In United States

Among economists born in United States, Richard Thaler ranks 21. Before her are Irving Fisher (1867), Ben Bernanke (1953), Kenneth Arrow (1921), Harry Markowitz (1927), James Tobin (1918), and W. Edwards Deming (1900). After her are Edmund Phelps (1933), Lawrence Klein (1920), James M. Buchanan (1919), Charles Cooley (1864), Robert Reich (1946), and Robert Lucas Jr. (1937).

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