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Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to hundreds of "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioural scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful choice architecture to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.

Now, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have updated the book, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research. This final edition offers a wealth of new insights, for both its avowed fans and newcomers, about a wide range of issues that we face in our daily lives -- health, personal finance, climate change, and "sludge" (paperwork and other nuisances we don't want, and that keep us from getting what we do want) -- all while honouring one of the cardinal rules of nudging: make it fun!

RICHARD H. THALER: WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
ECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD books of the year

From the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. Traditional economics assumes that rational forces shape everything. Behavioural economics knows better. Richard Thaler has spent his career studying the notion that humans are central to the economy - and that we're error-prone individuals, not Spock-like automatons. Now behavioural economics is hugely influential, changing the way we think not just about money, but about ourselves, our world and all kinds of everyday decisions.

Whether buying an alarm clock, selling football tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. Dismissed at first by economists as an amusing sideshow, the study of human miscalculations and their effects on markets now drives efforts to make better decisions in our lives, our businesses, and our governments.

Coupling recent discoveries in human psychology with a practical understanding of incentives and market behaviour, Thaler enlightens readers about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioural economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building, to TV quiz shows, sports transfer seasons, and businesses like Uber.

When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers and policy makers are both profound and entertaining.

VENCEDOR DO NOBEL DE ECONOMIA PUBLICA SUA OBRA MAIS FUNDAMENTAL

Um dos pais-fundadores da economia comportamental, Richard H. Thaler remonta neste livro a história dessa disciplina, dos seus primórdios nos anos 1970 até suas aplicações na atualidade. Com exemplos que vão das altas apostas do mercado financeiro até o que nos influencia no momento de escolha do jantar, o autor traça de forma leve e bem-humorada os principais conceitos dessa área de conhecimento, resultando em uma leitura essencial para todos aqueles que desejam se conectar com o futuro do pensamento econômico.

Aliando as mais recentes descobertas no campo da psicologia à compreensão prática de incentivos e comportamento de mercado, o livro nos ajuda a tomar decisões mais inteligentes nos âmbitos pessoal e financeiro. Misbehaving revela como o estudo da imprevisibilidade humana pode ser útil para nossas vidas, negócios e governos, transformando assim a forma como pensamos sobre nós mesmos e o mundo.

Ce livre raconte l'avènement de l'" économie comportementale ", dont Richard Thaler est l'un des principaux pères fondateurs. En combinant la psychologie expérimentale et l'étude concrète des marchés, cette nouvelle discipline refonde l'analyse économique sur les comportements réels des êtres humains, et non plus sur la fiction de l'homo œconomicus. Autrement dit, elle sape les fondements de la science officielle (mainstream) qui ne croit qu'aux marchés efficients agis par des acteurs rationnels prenant toujours la meilleure décision possible. Quarante ans de recherches ont en effet définitivement établi que les consommateurs, les entrepreneurs, les traders, les investisseurs, les chauffeurs de taxi, etc., pensent et agissent bien souvent de travers par rapport à la fiction du choix rationnel. Plutôt que de rédiger un manuel, Thaler a choisi de rendre ces découvertes accessibles à un large public, en racontant sa vie de chercheur, ses quarante années de combat contre la doxa régissant les universités américaines. Cela donne un livre vivant et plein d'humour, grâce auquel chacun comprendra mieux ses propres comportements erronés (misbehaving), certes déviants de la rationalité économique, mais qui font de nous des humains, et non pas ces extraterrestres qui peuplent les manuels d'économie. Thaler nous dévoile aussi comment la compréhension de nos modes de raisonnement réels peut nous aider à prendre de meilleures décisions dans notre vie personnelle, dans la gestion des affaires économiques ou dans la conduite des politiques publiques.


Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Christophe Jaquet.


Richard H. Thaler, 73 ans, professeur à l'université de Chicago, est considéré, avec Daniel Kahneman, comme le père fondateur de l'économie comportementale. Il a reçu le prix en l'honneur d'Alfred Nobel (2017) pour l'ensemble des découvertes dont il retrace l'histoire dans ce livre.

El libro que inspiró a Barack Obama los fundamentos de la política al demostrar el poder de un pequeño empujón.

Por el Premio Nobel de Economía 2017 Richard H. Thaler.

En Un pequeño empujón, considerado ya un clásico y uno de los mejores libros sobre economía y política de las últimas décadas, Cass R. Sunstein y Richard H. Thaler, premio Nobel de Economía, observan cómo nuestras percepciones y decisiones dependen del modo en que se organizan ante nosotros las diferentes opciones. Gobiernos y empresas, pero también padres, profesores y médicos, se convierten así en una especie de «arquitectos de la elección».

A través de leves impulsos, conscientes, a menudo invisibles y cuyo coste económico y político es irrisorio, las personas e instituciones públicas o privadas pueden incentivar sin mermar la libertad de elección de los ciudadanos, y obtener así grandes logros en relación con la sanidad pública, las finanzas o la lucha contra la desigualdad. Un libro esencial para quienes formulan nuestras políticas públicas, pero cuya aplicabilidad en nuestras vidas cotidianas es sorprendente y maravillosamente eficaz.

Críticas:
«¿Cuántas veces se encuentra uno con un libro a la vez importante y divertido, práctico y profundo? De lectura obligada para quien quiera ver mejorar el funcionamiento de nuestras mentes y nuestra sociedad.»
Daniel Kahneman, Premio Nobel de Economía y autor de Pensar rápido, pensar despacio

«Me entusiasma este libro. Es uno de los pocos que han cambiado de un modo trascendente mi manera de ver el mundo.»
Steve Levitt, autor de Freakonomics

«El libro más importante que he leído en veinte años.»
Barry Schwartz, The American Prospect

«Fabuloso. Cambiará tu forma de pensar, no solo sobre el mundo que te rodea y algunos de sus mayores problemas, sino también sobre ti mismo.»
Michael Lewis, autor de La gran apuesta y Deshaciendo errores

Nudge – so heißt die Formel, mit der man andere dazu bewegt, die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Denn Menschen verhalten sich von Natur aus nicht rational. Nur mit einer Portion List können sie dazu gebracht werden, vernünftig zu handeln. Aber wie schafft man das, ohne sie zu bevormunden? Wie erreicht man zum Beispiel, dass sie sich um ihre Altervorsorge kümmern, umweltbewusst leben oder sich gesund ernähren? Darauf gibt Nudge die Antwort. Das Konzept hat bereits viele Entscheidungsträger überzeugt, darunter  US-Präsident Barack Obama. Anschaulich und unterhaltsam präsentieren der Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Richard Thaler und Cass Sunstein einen neuen Ansatz der Verhaltensökonomie, der schon heute das Denken und Handeln in Politik und Wirtschaft prägt.

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach in finance--an approach that, as editor Richard Thaler put it, "entertains the possibility that some of the agents in the economy behave less than fully rationally some of the time." Much has changed since then. Not least, the bursting of the Internet bubble and the subsequent market decline further demonstrated that financial markets often fail to behave as they would if trading were truly dominated by the fully rational investors who populate financial theories. Behavioral finance has made an indelible mark on areas from asset pricing to individual investor behavior to corporate finance, and continues to see exciting empirical and theoretical advances.



Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volume II constitutes the essential new resource in the field. It presents twenty recent papers by leading specialists that illustrate the abiding power of behavioral finance--of how specific departures from fully rational decision making by individual market agents can provide explanations of otherwise puzzling market phenomena. As with the first volume, it reaches beyond the world of finance to suggest, powerfully, the importance of pursuing behavioral approaches to other areas of economic life.


The contributors are Brad M. Barber, Nicholas Barberis, Shlomo Benartzi, John Y. Campbell, Emil M. Dabora, Daniel Kent, François Degeorge, Kenneth A. Froot, J. B. Heaton, David Hirshleifer, Harrison Hong, Ming Huang, Narasimhan Jegadeesh, Josef Lakonishok, Owen A. Lamont, Roni Michaely, Terrance Odean, Jayendu Patel, Tano Santos, Andrei Shleifer, Robert J. Shiller, Jeremy C. Stein, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Richard H. Thaler, Sheridan Titman, Robert W. Vishny, Kent L. Womack, and Richard Zeckhauser.