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Richard Thaler, left, won the Nobel Prize in economics on Monday in part because he realized people act irrationally. Credit Scott Olson/Getty Images


The Art of Thinking Well

The Art of Thinking Well

Richard Thaler has just won an extremely well deserved Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler took an obvious point, that people don’t always behave rationally, and showed the ways we are systematically irrational. Thanks to his work and others’, we know a lot more about...
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Commuters make their way amidst smog on a flyover in New Delhi, India.(Reuters photo)


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FILE PHOTO: Japan’s Emperor Akihito waits for the arrival of German President Christian Wulff at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo October 24, 2011. REUTERS/Issei Kato/File Photo


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Greek police found data on a man’s phone who is suspected to have ties with ISIS. AFP photo


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A new Rohingya refugee woman cries as they arrive near the Kutupalang makeshift Refugee Camp, in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, August 30, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain


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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem (REUTERS)


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Tank of Iraqi forces in Kirkuk – Reuters


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The Holland players react to the disappointment of failing to qualify for their second major football tournament in a row. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images


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Women walk past a graffiti, denouncing strikes by US drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sana’a, Yemen February 6, 2017. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah


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Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the “V” sign at the frontline in Raqqa, Syria October 16, 2017. REUTERS/Rodi Said