Behavioral economics is the study of the psychological factors involved in the decisions of individuals or institutions, and how these decisions deviate from those implied by traditional economic theo
Adam Smith, author of The Wealth of Nations (1776) and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Herbert A. Simon, winner of the 1975 Turing award, the 1978 Nobel Prize in economics, and the 1988 John von Neumann Theory Prize
Daniel Kahneman, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in economics
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a book written by University of Chicago economist and Nobel laureate Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunste