Richard Thaler Quotes

• Cuando un economista dice que las pruebas son "contradictorias", quiere decir que la teoría dice una cosa y los datos la contraria.

  Richard Thaler

  Mean, Opposites, Data

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• My mantra is if you want to help people accomplish some goal, make it easy.

  Richard Thaler

  People, Goal, Want

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• So, what's a nudge? A nudge is some small feature of the environment that attracts our attention and alters our behavior.

  Richard Thaler

  Attention, Nudge, Environment

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• A good rule of thumb is to assume that everything matters.

  Richard Thaler

  Risk, Thumbs, Matter

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• The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it's automatic.

  Richard Thaler

  People, Lessons, Economics

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• There's no reason to think that
  markets always drive people to
  what's good for them.

  Richard Thaler

  Pensamiento, Gente, Razón

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• Recall that people like to do what most people think it is right to do; recall too that people like to do what most people actually do.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, People, Recalls

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• Rip Van Winkle would be the ideal stock market investor: Rip could invest in the market before his nap and when he woke up 20 years later, he'd be happy. He would have been asleep through all the ups and downs in between. But few investors resemble Mr. Van Winkle. The more often an investor counts his money - or looks at the value of his mutual funds in the newspaper - the lower his risk tolerance.

  Richard Thaler

  Rip, Naps, Years

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• If people just put away what's left at the end of the month, that's a recipe for failure.

  Richard Thaler

  People, Recipes, Months

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• People worry that if they buy an annuity and then die before the policy starts to pay off, their heirs will lose out. I tell them, "What you should be more worried about is if you outlive your money, you will have to move in with your kids. Ask your kids which of these outcomes they are more worried about."

  Richard Thaler

  Moving, Kids, People

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• Investors must keep in mind that there's a difference between a good company and a good stock. After all, you can buy a good car but pay too much for it.

  Richard Thaler

  Differences, Car, Mind

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• La gente exagera sus propias habilidades. Son optimistas sobre sus perspectivas y demasiado confiados en sus conjeturas, incluso sobre qué directivos elegir.

  Richard Thaler

  Optimistic, Skills, People

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• I'm all for empowerment and education, but the empirical evidence is that it doesn't work. That's why I say make it easy.

  Richard Thaler

  Empowerment, Easy, Empirical Evidence

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• I think one lesson we have to learn is that there's a lot more risk than we're giving credit to, a lot more what economist calls systematic risk.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Giving, Risk

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• There are cases when I can make myself better off by restricting my future choices and commit myself to a specific course of action.

  Richard Thaler

  Choices, Action, Cases

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• The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously preposterous.

  Richard Thaler

  Assumption, Figures, Plans

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• I don't go by the ratings. I buy wine that tastes good. Statistically, anybody's ability to predict what will be a good wine a decade from now is limited.

  Richard Thaler

  Wine, Taste, Rating

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• Most economists, including me, agree that longevity insurance would make sense for a lot of people.

  Richard Thaler

  People, Longevity, Economist

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• Creo que las personas que más han confiado en nuestro negocio en la última década han sido las que se autodenominaban gestores de riesgos.

  Richard Thaler

  Pensamiento, Personas, Riesgo

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• Everyone's lost a lot of money on their 401k plans. I've heard some people calling them 201k plans. So it's even more important to get people to be saving more for retirement. Behavioral economics has helped us learn a lot about how to do that.

  Richard Thaler

  Retirement, People, Important

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists' greatest success story. It is a prototypical behavioral-economics problem because saving for retirement is cognitively hard - figuring out how much to save - and requires self-control.

  Richard Thaler

  Retirement, Self, Saving

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• The reason is they failed to learned the primary lesson we should have learned from when Long Term Capital Management went belly up ten years ago. That is, investments that seem uncorrelated can be correlated simply because we're interested in it.

  Richard Thaler

  Should Have, Years, Long

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• I think we also have learned the lesson that we have to have better incentive structures.

  Richard Thaler

  Thinking, Lessons, Incentives

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• El mundo está mucho más correlacionado de lo que creemos. Y por eso vemos más de lo que Nassim Taleb llama "sucesos de cisne negro": sucesos raros que ocurren más a menudo de lo que deberían porque el mundo está más correlacionado.

  Richard Thaler

  Swans, Rare Events, Giving

  Fuente: bigthink.com

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• Why tie to gold? Why not 1982 Bordeaux?

  Richard Thaler

  Money, Ties, Gold

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