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

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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

Richard Thaler

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

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When an economist says the evidence is "mixed," he or she means that theory says one thing and data says the opposite.

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

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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.

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

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

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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.

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You don't try to duplicate certain things that other cats do, because you could never do it as well as they do. Nobody can get on that tenor saxophone and play like Trane, because he's the only one who can spell out chords and sound good when he does it.

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I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

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