![]() Follow us on Twitter, , and listen for Hidden Brain stories every week on your local public radio station. The Hidden Brain Podcast is hosted by Shankar Vedantam and produced by Kara McGuirk-Alison and Maggie Penman. ![]() This episode, we bring you the best parts from that conversation: They talk about why it's so hard to find a cab on a rainy day, how marshmallows can predict the future and why where we get our money influences how we spend it. Shankar Vedantam sat down with Thaler a few months ago for an event at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. ![]() If you've read Thaler's previous book, Nudge, you know he's is an economist who studies why people predictably don't act the way traditional economists say they will. That's the title of Richard Thaler's new book: Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics. We use the tickets we bought to a concert even though we're sick. We order dessert when we're supposed to be dieting. ![]() ![]() We don't always act like we're supposed to. NPR's Weekend in Washington session at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Oct. THALER: WINNER OF THE 2017 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICSShortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year AwardECONOMIST, FINANCIAL TIMES and EVENING STANDARD books of the yearFrom the renowned and entertaining behavioural economist and co-author of the seminal work Nudge, Misbehaving is an irreverent and enlightening look into human foibles. ![]()
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