Mr. Benartzi and his research partner, Richard Thaler of the University of Chicago, have showed how.

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Halpern and senior policy-making colleagues often reference Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein.

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Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have made a convincing case about the importance of nudging behavior towards desired ends.

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Economist Richard Thaler argues in the New York Times that more people should wait to claim Social Security benefits.

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To encourage people to enjoy the benefits of lunch, we need to change the lunch default rule with the kind of "libertarian paternalism" advocated by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in their book Nudge.

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This finding is confirmed by 30 years of research, ranging from "behaviorists" such as Robert Shiller and Richard Thaler to "efficient marketers" such as Eugene Fama and Ken French, to "economists" such as John Campbell and myself.

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In the words of the behavioral economist Richard Thaler, we engage in "mental accounting, " putting our money in different accounts based on how we earned it, how easily we can access it, how long we've had it and so on.

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But referee Ben Thaler referred the try to video referee Richard Silverwood, who deemed that the Crusaders' Jordan James had purposely collided into Danny McGuire in the build-up to the score.

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