The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2017
Awarded on: 2017-10-09
"for his contributions to behavioural economics"
Affiliations:
- University of Chicago – Chicago, IL, USA
Richard H. Thaler
Born: 1945-09-12 in East Orange, NJ, USA
Gender: male
Field: American economist (born 1945)
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. In 2015, Thaler was president of the American Economic Association.