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Misbehaving
- The Making of Behavioral Economics
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Categories: Business & Careers, Marketing & Sales
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Get ready to change the way you think about economics.
Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.
Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball 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. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. 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 behavior, Thaler enlightens listeners about how to make smarter decisions in an increasingly mystifying world. He reveals how behavioral economic analysis opens up new ways to look at everything from household finance to assigning faculty offices in a new building to TV game shows, the NFL draft, and businesses like Uber.
Laced with antic stories of Thaler's spirited battles with the bastions of traditional economic thinking, Misbehaving is a singular look into profound human foibles. When economics meets psychology, the implications for individuals, managers, and policy makers are both profound and entertaining.
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- Sandeep Bhasin
- 17-05-19
Excellent Biographical account by Thaler
The only problem with this audio book is that its too lengthy and that makes it a bit monotonous. After about 9 hours of listening, I don't feel like listening to the same voice... The book, however, is a goldmine
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- Barrie Bramley
- 04-10-15
I'm a lot smarter than I was before
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I loved this book. I'm no economist. Didn't study it, don't really understand the technical detail to it, but I loved the interaction and story of what happens when human beings are considered in Economics instead of 'Econs'. This book was a great story of how the behavioural filter was introduced to Economics.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Misbehaving?
His story of speaking at a conference to 23 MD's about decision making. Such a powerful story of how people make decisions depending on where they're standing.
What about L. J. Ganser’s performance did you like?
He did a great job fitting into the book. He could have been the author. He felt / sounded like the author.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. I could never have. There was way too much for me to consider, ponder and process for one sitting.
Any additional comments?
Fab book. I found it after listening to 'Think like a Freak' Was a great choice to follow up on. I'm moving on to 'Influence' based on it's recommendation in this book.
78 people found this helpful
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- Jay Friedman
- 30-09-15
Great book if it's your first about Behav. Econ
This might be slightly unfair, but I couldn't get into this book because I've essentially heard/read all this before. If you're familiar with the Freakonomics series, Influence, or any of the many other B.E. books, you simply won't find anything new in here. On the other hand, if you're brand new to B.E., this would be a really great starter book. However, as comprehensive as it is, it's nowhere near as entertaining as the Freakonomics series or Influence. I even liked "secrets of the money lab" better.
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- S. Yates
- 01-10-16
Excellent, informative, and practical
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Insightful, humorous, and eye-opening book on behavioral economics. In line with a handful of other books in a similar vein -- basically, that humans are not particularly rational and that some of the mental shortcuts we take that behooved us as we evolved do not necessarily assist us in modern decision-making -- that turn the mirror on human behavior and help a reader understand their own irrational decisions. Thaler has a wonderful sense of humor and a keen eye for human fallacies. His curiosity (like that of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky) about human behavior and his background in economics pair up nicely and allowed him to examine generally agreed upon economic and financial beliefs and question them. He points out a number of examples of irrationality, and various heuristics and biases, that might be familiar to readers who have read some other books in related fields (including Thinking, Fast and Slow; and Superforecasting), but Thaler's book is still an excellent read and much of his findings dovetail with those of Kahneman and Tversky (he worked with them both) and are all the more interesting as you understand that all of these findings were coming about contemporaneously and upending the economic world.
Definitely recommended, if for no other reason than to understand yourself and your decision making processes better, but also for the insight into how much framing an option can do to impact how people feel about it and consequently whether or not they take one action versus another.
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- cokilx
- 11-04-18
Too much boring details about his career
What would have made Misbehaving better?
Cutting 70% of the content from the book.
Would you ever listen to anything by Richard Thaler again?
Probably not. Not interested in listening to people's laundry lists.
Any additional comments?
The theories are interesting. However, he puts way too many details about his career and all the "important" events, summer camps, and endless names of "important" people.
It is very hard to follow when he spends hours talking how they organized events and summer camps together. It is not even a memoir, it is more like a laundry list of things that came up to his mind.
It is ironic that at the beginning of the book, he said he would not write about anything that is boring and 70% of the book turned out to be super boring and irrelevant.
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- V. Taras
- 01-05-19
Extremely insightful, not designed to be practical
Extremely interesting if you're an economist or a scientist.
Don't expect this book to teach you how to make decisions or explain behavior of others.
Don't expect a review of theories or research findings.
It's not a How To book, not "Thinking Fast and Slow".
It's a book written by one of the founding fathers of behavioral economics (or nephews rather, when you read the book you'll know what I mean). It just provides an insider story and history of the field. How behavioral economics emerged as a field, who played a role in institutionalizing the discipline, the challenges and accidents along the way, where the field is going.
A good life lesson for other disciplines.
I am in International Business, and our field, so some extent, is going through the same developments, trying to find its place in general management.
Entrepreneurs and people who seek self-improvement and growth probably won't find it very interesting.
However, it should be very informative for academics of all disciplines.
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- Adi
- 06-12-15
Tough to follow way without the grpahs
Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?
Tough to follow without the bar charts and graphs that are repeatedly referenced in the audio.
Not the best content for an audio book
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- Mark
- 19-06-17
I am not an Econ ...
I’m struggling lately to find good popular science books. It can’t be true, but it feels like I’ve read all the best ones and now I’m starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel. I chose this book not because I was fascinated by the subject, but because it had been well reviewed by listeners.
The book is a combination of the author’s life’s story and the parallel narrative of the evolution of behavioural economics. Please forgive me if you already know this, but before behavioural economics it was assumed that people (at least on average) behaved in predictable, rational ways when making economic choices. The name for these rational economic beings is ‘Econs’.
This author was one of the originators of the idea that, in fact, real people do not behave in this way. There are lots of situations where people make irrational choices, based on the fact that we are human beings with emotions, weaknesses and foibles. The traditional economists objected that these deviants were exceptions and that, overall, rational economic behaviour dominates, but as the field of behavioural economics has become more respectable, it is becoming more and more apparent that it is a key factor in explaining real economic behaviour.
This book provides numerous examples of this economic 'misbehaving': If you buy expensive shoes you keep on wearing them even though they give you blisters – this is called ‘sunk costs’ – a true Econ would just accept the loss and move on. It is this same theory which is often given to explain why the US persevered with the Vietnam War once it was obvious that it could not be won: too much money and too many lives had been expended to just walk away, and yet this would have been the rational thing to do.
In another example, people who win at the casino aren’t as careful as they would be with money out of their own pocket. This is because they are playing with ‘House money’ and it is called the ‘endowment effect’. A true Econ would be just as careful with this money.
The book looks at a wide range of situations where similar behaviours impact on economic choices. I got a bit lost on many occasions, either because it wasn’t particularly interesting, or because it was quite mathematical, or because it kept referring to a pdf which is hard to access when driving a car or riding a bicycle. But there was enough in it to make it enlightening – just, and the narrator was good.
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- Trenton
- 22-01-18
More of a story about a researcher.....
The author decided that the book would be more interesting apparently if he told you about his life as a researcher, peppering in little tidbits of information here and there about what they were studying at any given time in his career and occasionally what it means. He spends less time dummying it down than he does telling you that he traveled to this place, with his researcher and this is how it went when they presented their findings.
I could have done with zero talk about his career and his life, and only talk about economics, rife with examples from the real world, illustrations, expanding concepts, making them more palatable.
The life of a professor and how he goes about researching just isn't really what I was looking for.
The narration is good. There are little tidbits of interesting info here and there. For the length of the book though, the good parts aren't nearly as regular as they should be.
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- Pam
- 03-06-15
Entertaining story of the life of a scientist
I'd recommend this book to anyone who is curious about life as a scientist. The actual science of behavioral economics is interesting enough if you want to learn more about it, but the author really shines when he describes how he came up with some of his research projects, and how he was able to collaborate with good people and secure funding for his work (which isn't easy!). Thaler makes his life story both informative and funny. This book should be required reading for anyone who wants to be a scientist, regardless of discipline.
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- Dolores
- 31-05-15
A Wiinner: A Case for Misbehaving
This was fabulous. I couldn't put it down. The thread of an academic career will stimulate many students and young professors to find a passion and build on it. The practical sense of the behavioral problems discussed was fantastic. I will look for the problems in my own field to brainstorm solutions from a behavioral point of view. This was fun to read as well as inspiring. Dolores Pretorius, MD, Professor of Radiology, Univ of Calif, San Diego
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- Ross
- 01-06-17
A fantastic book that everyone should hear
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I came to this book after reading "Predictably Irrational" by Dan Ariely and "What you need to know about Economics" by George Buckley and Sumeet Desai, and I found this book to take me into a whole new level of understanding of both economics, psychology and the interplay that is behavioural economics.
The book covers all elements of behavioural economics from its inception up to modern day application, with the underlying theories extensively discussed through case studies and research. Richard Thaler writes in an honest and interesting way that is easy to grasp whilst maintaining a high level of detail. I do feel that the 2 books I read prior to this were helpful in my understanding of the themes of this book (Ariely's is "softer" and more psychology oriented, whilst Buckley and Desai's covers the basics of economics well enough to understand common terminology) but I wouldn't say it is entirely necessary to have that understanding, and I would DEFINITELY recommend this book regardless!! Easily 5 stars.
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- Tim W
- 03-05-16
Excellent
I thoroughly enjoyed Misbehaving.
As other reviewers suggest it is quite autobiographical in tone so expect plenty of personal anecdotes from the author's life, rather than a straight-up discussion of the subject matter.
For me, this works really well. It allows you to get a real insight into the difficulties of trying to push a new way of thinking (behavioral economics) into an established field (traditional economics).
Misbehaving is, as the subtitle states, about the story of how this new field, behavioral economics came about, rather than just a direct explanation of what behavioral economics is. Although it does a fine job of explaining this too.
As a sidenote: I found one of the later chapters about the author's work for the UK government especially interesting, as a Brit myself.
Plus the naration was excellent.
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- Judy Corstjens
- 27-01-16
Behavioural Economics in Perspective
I've read a lot of behavioural economics books, but this one has a genuinely different perspective. Although it does present many of the standard ideas of behavioural economics, (how we contradict ourselves by wanting inconsistent things, or make systematic errors in our perceptions and decisions etc. and it does this very well) the book's overall theme is behavioural economics itself. It explains how BE impacts on classical economics, and how difficult and challenging it is for classically trained economists to adjust to what is genuinely a paradigm shift. Thaler draws out the importance of these shifts - before I had seen BE as a set of quirky anomalies and wrinkles but Thaler argues that humans, not 'econs', have to be put at the heart of economics, and that this calls for a fundamental reassessment of the subject. Thaler's style is personal (the book is written largely as a memoir) and sometimes it gets a touch self indulgent (the reorganisation of the economics department's offices), but Thaler's humorous tone and wit often carry this off. I loved the concept of the 'invisible hand wave'.
Narration: perfect, Ganser sounds like a sympathetic American economics professor.
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- RR
- 23-09-19
Everything is always coming later
I persevered with this book because it kept promising interesting things would come in later chapters. It's very hard to skim through an audio book to see if this is true, so you just keep hoping. If you are really interested in the author's life, go ahead and read this. If you're a fan of Kahnemann and Tversky or Freakonomics and figure this will be a similar book, it won't. It hints at the margins, but if you've read the other works, you've covered it. It's not fun and quirky, it's a biography with some heavy papers on the stock market in the middle.
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- phil chadwick
- 29-05-16
Brilliant explanation of behavioural economics
Richard Thaler makes a complex academic discipline easy to understand - the mark of true intelligence. Very informative
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- Hyperspacial
- 23-06-17
fascinating and informative
a very enjoyable and informative book told well. kept my interest through and left me wanting to find out more about this facilitating subject
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- MWood
- 16-09-15
Interesting but long
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Yes I would, if it was a friend with a dedicated interest in economics and psychology. However, at 13 hours, its quite long for an audio book. Making it hard to digest in places, especially as, at times it felt like an autobiography rather than a book about behavioural economics. Too much time telling us about his life. Maybe there's an abridged version. Having said that some of the points were fascinating, and I think I took quite a lot from it,
What was the most interesting aspect of this story? The least interesting?
Ideas and theories were good
What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?
Performance was ok.
If this book were a film would you go see it?
n/a
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-02-16
A bit disappointing.
This book is interesting and insightful. However I'm not sure if it's the narration or the author but it starts to get very long winded at times. It is as though once the point has been made it has to be remade again and again just to make sure you get it. The topics are interesting and each chapter starts off well and makes you eager to listen. Unfortunately it doesn't keep the momentum. I stopped listening at the 78% mark as I was just becoming too frustrated. I might try reading this book as I suspect it may be the narration.
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- Anonymous User
- 10-04-19
fantastic but doesnt work that well as an audio bo
the content and performance of this is perfect but he uses figures to explain statistic and data from experiments. while it is possible to follow the narration without these figures, it would be preferable to have see them and being able to reference then easily.
i will definitely pick up the book instead but if you dont like reading this is still a wonderful audiobook to pick up
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- Daft Monk
- 23-02-16
Don't sit next to this author at a dinner party...
Glad I read this solid history of behavioral economics but the author's waffly anecdotes about academic life and cheesy cornball humour really start grate after four hundred pages
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- Rhetta
- 17-05-16
interesting and entertaining
great use of anecdotes to illustrate key themes and theories. entertaining and interesting an easy read/listen
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- Anonymous User
- 09-05-18
Making Sense of Common Sense
The narrator was great, and delivered the book with the justice the ideas deserved. As someone curious about human nature and our inherent fallibility, this book communicated good arguments for why we need a better understanding of how we make decisions.
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- Michael
- 20-05-16
Loved it
Great writing, great performing. Definitely has me more interested in economics as it addresses a lot of problems I intuitively had with the field
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- Anonymous User
- 29-07-20
Simply great boook
I will sugest this book to everyone. It is not just about economics but about everyday life of each of us.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-12-19
Excellent
Really interesting topic with enough stories and anecdotes to make the journey of behavioural economics accessible.
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- Css79
- 24-08-19
Dry, academic, not for me.
This has a lot of theory based material, and it just wasn't up my alley. I couldn't get into this no matter how hard I tried. Maybe it would have been better if I was reading it in my hand and was more well versed in economic theories.
I've listened to many business books, and this one didn't capture my attention.
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- andrew m boxer
- 13-06-19
very interesting read :)
I liked it. if you liked thinking fast and slow you'll like this too. done over lapping but not a huge amount.
I was nice finding out his journey but wouldn't call it a biography by Amy means
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- claus steinenböhmer
- 30-05-19
super interesting!
for people taking their first steps into psychology and economics this is super interesting!
found out about it after listening to freakonomics podcast.
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- Anonymous User
- 22-01-19
great read foe those interested in topic area
For those interested in psychology and business or finance books.
makes a good trade off between narrative, ease of following complex material, and gives a good perspective on topics with which reader might be familiar with from other sources e.g. myself I got all the fama French literature at university and followed up later with thinking and fast slow. with that perspective it made interesting reading.
perhaps not for those who are not already interested in business, finance, public policy or psychology.p
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- Chris Brady
- 07-09-18
Fantastic
Another one of those 'books that explain everything about life' books!
I loved the beauty contest.