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The Undoing Project
Michael Lewis
“I recommend that book. It's an easy read.”
“an amazing book Michael wrote was about Conorman and Tverki called The Undoing Project... if you're curious about those two people... I recommend that book. It's an easy read.”— Richard H. Thaler
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
“It's a great book”
“I don't think it's as hard as thinking fast and slow, which was tough. It's a great book, but it's dense.”— Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge
Richard H. Thaler
“new employees now joined 90% instead of 50%. I wrote a book called Nudge, and that's an example of a nudge.”— Richard H. Thaler
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Misbehaving
Richard H. Thaler
“I was reading in preparation for this a bunch of his old source material papers like I've read Nudge I read misbehaving and all of these”— Tim Ferriss
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The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics, Anomalies Then and Now
Richard H. Thaler
“Take the concept of the winner's curse. This is an obvious move on my part since I have a new book that's called the winner's curse.”— Richard H. Thaler
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Moneyball
Michael Lewis
“You can think of Michael Lewis's book Moneyball. It's the same field.”— Richard H. Thaler
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The Big Short
Michael Lewis
“everybody knows Michael Lewis and Moneyball and many of his other books like The Big Short, my favorite movie.”— Richard H. Thaler
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The Big Short
Adam McKay (inferred)
“many of his other books like The Big Short, my favorite movie. People don't realize I'm a I have a cameo in that movie.”— Richard H. Thaler
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The Hunger Games (audiobook)
Suzanne Collins (inferred)
“she gave them the Hunger Games audio book and they could only listen to it when they were on the treadmill.”— Richard H. Thaler
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