Re:Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison
by kashyapc on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @07:08AM
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About 10 years ago, I too, as a newbie-layman, started with "Predictably Irrational". I recall being similarly fascinated, and recommending it to anyone who'd listen to me. It's surely a gentler start to the field; and I concur with you on suggestions for deeper material.
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Nudge is pretty easy reading from Thaler and Sunstein. Personally tough, I preferred his Misbehaving which goes into his history with the field. Way back when, I had a couple courses with Thaler when he was calling the field Behavioural Decision Theory.
Re:Dan Ariely and Irrational Comparison
by 2T1Qka0rEiPr on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @02:07PM
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Agreed - Misbehaving is a really interesting history of the development of the field, and the characters introduced along the way. I was also doing Thaler a dis-service, I find his writing to be far more page-turny than Kahneman or Sunstein.
> Misbehaving is a really interesting history of the development of the field
A Thaler-centric history. There are others...
(I have a copy of Misbehaving.)