Editors Reads

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Behavioral Economics

5 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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Where to Start with Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein — how to approach Nudge, their landmark book on choice architecture and libertarian paternalism that changed how governments design public policy. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Richard Thaler: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Richard Thaler — how to approach Misbehaving, his inside account of how behavioral economics upended the rational-actor model that defines classical economics. A complete reading guide.

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Best Behavioral Economics Books: Essential Reading

The best behavioral economics books — from Thinking, Fast and Slow and Predictably Irrational to Nudge and Misbehaving. Essential reading on decision-making.

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Best Books About Decision-Making: Essential Reads on Thinking and Judgment

The best books about decision-making — from Thinking, Fast and Slow and Superforecasting to Nudge and The Righteous Mind. Essential reads on judgment and reason.

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Books Like Thinking, Fast and Slow: Cognitive Science, Bias, and How We Actually Make Decisions

Daniel Kahneman's account of System 1 (fast, intuitive, emotional) and System 2 (slow, deliberative, rational) thinking — and the ways System 1 hijacks decisions we believe are rational — is the most influential popular psychology book of the last two decades. These books share its revelatory quality and its evidence-based challenge to our self-image as rational beings.

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