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EXTRA: People Aren’t Dumb. The World Is Hard. (Update)

Freakonomics Radio • July 15, 2024

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You wouldn’t think you could win a Nobel Prize for showing that humans tend to make irrational decisions. But that’s what Richard Thaler has done. In an interview from 2018, the founder of behavioral economics describes his unlikely route to success; his reputation for being lazy; and his efforts to fix the world — one nudge at a time.

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