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Nobel Goes To American Richard Thaler For Work In Behavioral Economics

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Posted on October 9, 2017 · The Swedish Academy said it was awarding Thaler the prize in economics for his pioneering work in incorporating "psychologically realistic assumptions into analyses of economic decision-making"

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