Richard Thaler — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2017 for contributions to behavioral economics.
Serves as the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Served as president of the American Economic Association in 2015.
Collaborated with Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky in defining the field of behavioral economics.
Elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Founding director of the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision Research at Cornell University (1989).
Earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from the University of Rochester.

Biography

Richard H. Thaler is an American economist and the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2017 for his contributions to behavioral economics.