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Image, It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible,

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It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like Homer Simpson than Superman. So from this perspective it is rather depressing. But at the same time there is also a silver lining. There are free lunches!

—Dan Ariely

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One of the big lessons from behavioral economics is that we make decisions as a function of the environment that we're in.

—Dan Ariely

Image, The lesson from behavioral economics is that people only save if it’s automatic.

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

—Richard Thaler

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January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Years resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

—Sendhil Mullainathan

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[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

—Kenneth E. Boulding

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How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist's mind?... I think that these behavioral economics...or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don't think it's going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what's right in psychology.

—Charlie Munger

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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

Image, Retirement savings is probably behavioral economists’ greatest success story. It is a

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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

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The concept of loss aversion is certainly the most significant contribution of psychology to behavioral economics.

—Daniel Kahneman

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I started to read as obsessively about Star Wars as I once did about Kant - and still do about behavioral economics and behavioral psychology.

—Cass Sunstein