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#1 Submitted by NJF on October 30, 2021 - 9:33pm

"‘I became an academic because I’m not good at taking orders’" sounds like most Academics I know!

Richard Thaler: ‘I became an academic because I’m not good at taking orders’

John Morgan meets the Nobel prizewinning father of nudge economics, who believes that the dismal science can only be improved by taking account of people’s ‘predictable mistakes’

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Richard Thaler: ‘I became an academic because I’m not good at taking orders’

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