Becoming a behaviorialist

Becoming a behaviorialist (i.e., overcoming autism in economics ;-). Audio interview.

Leading behavioral economist Richard Thaler, the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, talks about how he found his way into this then-nonexistent field and how he came to study irrational economic behavior at UChicago, the home of efficient markets and rational expectations.

Lots of other good interviews in this Chicago series (iTunes): Heckman, Sargent on the euro, Hansen on risk.