Nobel prize in economics awarded to Richard Thaler
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Pioneer of behavioural economics is best known for 'nudge' theory, which has influenced politicians and policymakers
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One of the founding fathers of "nudge" theory, which has helped boost British tax receipts and encouraged smokers to become vapers, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel prize for economics.
Richard Thaler co-wrote a bestselling book on the nudge concept read by politicians around the world and soon had them embracing the notion that people can be influenced by prompts - such as changing the wording of tax demands - to alter their behaviour.
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