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Behavioral Economics Books
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 298 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.12 — 132,412 ratings — published 2008
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 267 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.17 — 604,815 ratings — published 2011
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 212 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.84 — 96,065 ratings — published 2008
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,081 ratings — published 2016
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 905,814 ratings — published 2005
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 35,986 ratings — published 2010
SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 134,879 ratings — published 2009
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,849 ratings — published 2016
Outliers: The Story of Success (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.19 — 880,932 ratings — published 2008
The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,009 ratings — published 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.21 — 181,330 ratings — published 1984
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.01 — 862,835 ratings — published 2000
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.83 — 37,292 ratings — published 2004
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 627,542 ratings — published 2005
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
by (shelved 42 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,555 ratings — published 2001
Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.78 — 19,791 ratings — published 2008
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,907 ratings — published 2021
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 123,691 ratings — published 2007
Think Like a Freak (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 34 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.86 — 56,667 ratings — published 2014
Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,615 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.13 — 571,394 ratings — published 2012
Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,199 ratings — published 2008
The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.91 — 14,980 ratings — published 2010
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,711 ratings — published 2009
Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,849 ratings — published 2017
Irrational Exuberance (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.98 — 8,553 ratings — published 2000
How We Decide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 41,753 ratings — published 2009
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.28 — 346,517 ratings — published 2020
Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations (TED Books)
by (shelved 25 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,611 ratings — published 2016
Stumbling on Happiness (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.82 — 64,110 ratings — published 2006
Choices, Values, and Frames (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,032 ratings — published 2000
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.97 — 193,518 ratings — published 2013
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.03 — 55,477 ratings — published 2010
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.10 — 58,953 ratings — published 2012
Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes And How To Correct Them: Lessons From The New Science Of Behavioral Economics (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,585 ratings — published 1999
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.97 — 52,848 ratings — published 2012
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 105,664 ratings — published 2009
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.08 — 22,708 ratings — published 2015
The Art of Thinking Clearly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.85 — 42,275 ratings — published 2011
Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,499 ratings — published 1982
The Wisdom of Crowds (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,819 ratings — published 2004
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,785 ratings — published 2008
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.00 — 341,531 ratings — published 2019
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.12 — 51,104 ratings — published 2013
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.98 — 100,737 ratings — published 2006
Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.43 — 2,382 ratings — published 2015
The Undercover Economist (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.81 — 29,872 ratings — published 2005
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,372,799 ratings — published 2018
The Why Axis: Hidden Motives and The Undiscovered Economics of Everyday Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,377 ratings — published 2013
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as behavioral-economics)
avg rating 3.82 — 24,439 ratings — published 2018
Essential Reads For Health, Wealth and Happiness: How To Know What You Do Not Know
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“... [behavioral economics] has its limits. As policymakers use it to devise programs, it’s becoming clear that behavioral economics is being asked to solve problems it wasn’t meant to address. Indeed, it seems in some cases that behavioral economics is being used as a political expedient, allowing policymakers to avoid painful but more effective solutions rooted in traditional economics.
Behavioral economics should complement, not substitute for, more substantive economic interventions. If traditional economics suggests that we should have a larger price difference between sugar-free and sugared drinks, behavioral economics could suggest whether consumers would respond better to a subsidy on unsweetened drinks or a tax on sugary drinks.
But that’s the most it can do.”
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Behavioral economics should complement, not substitute for, more substantive economic interventions. If traditional economics suggests that we should have a larger price difference between sugar-free and sugared drinks, behavioral economics could suggest whether consumers would respond better to a subsidy on unsweetened drinks or a tax on sugary drinks.
But that’s the most it can do.”
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“We are neither robotically systematic nor wholly idiotic when making investment decisions. To be sure, we do our best to remain objective and make good decisions, but we are strongly influenced by our cognitive limitations and the cloudy lens through which we see the world. But behavioral approaches, which showcased the limitations of our mental computers, simultaneously gave us the notion that what we consumed mattered greatly.”
― Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management
― Personal Benchmark: Integrating Behavioral Finance and Investment Management












