Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers - they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse" - why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day, why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one they own for less than $400. He also demonstrates that markets do not always operate with the traplike efficiency we impute to them.
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理查德·H·泰勒(Richard H.Thaler),1945年生,1974年毕业于罗彻斯特大学,获经济学博士学位。现执教于芝加哥大学商学院,Robert P.Gwinn金融和行为科学教授,行为决策研究中心主任,同时在国民经济研究局(NBER)主管行为经济学的研究工作。泰勒教授的研究主要集中于心理学、经济学等交叉学科,属于“经济学帝国主义”的开疆拓荒者,被认为是现代行为经济学和行为金融学领域的先锋经济学家,并且在储蓄和投资行为研究具有很深的研究造诣。他已经发表了很多大量高水平的论文和专著,其中代表著作有《赢者的诅咒》和《准理性经济学》。
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这是人类思维的本性,一件你喜欢的并已据为己有使用了很长时间的物品,无论是一件财产还是一个观点,都会深深地根植于你的躯体之中,不管你是怎么得到的,在你没有对它产生厌倦并试图摆脱之前,它是不会轻易被夺走的。
库恩:发现开始于对反常事物的认知,进而,这种对自然以某种方式偏离了预定轨道的认知,指导了人正常的科学发展。
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