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The Winner's Curse: Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life

by Richard H. Thaler (Author)

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The rationale of economics has come to dominate political and institutional life in recent years. However, many economic assumptions have received only scant study. This book examines the many anomalies that abound in even simple economic transactions.

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Language : English
Hardcover : 230 pages
ISBN-10 : 0029324653
ISBN-13 : 978-0029324653

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robert waddington

Not as engaging as Thaler's other books, but probably one of the most important

24 October 2018 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is a dense, academic book. It is nowhere as accessible as Thaler's other books. This book, however, is where it all started. It is an edited compilation of articles he wrote at the early end of his career. These themes are all repeated and referred back to - albeit in more digestible pieces - in his later books and even in Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow.

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Joel Skaistis

Best book out there in the Popular economics genre

23 August 2009 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book is a little heavy on the math, which I enjoyed at times but at other times felt really lost and not too eager to go look up the referenced journal articles for the full explanation on the formulas used.

The other benefit of all the math is it makes all the points that Thaler raises in this book much more scientifically based. This book isn't pseudoscience.

That said, it's not like this book is a math textbook. In the style of Freakonomics, (although the Winner's Curse was written about a decade earlier) Thaler just jumps from one cool behavioral economics example to the next.

The thing from this book that stuck with me the most was the chapter on positive expected value lotteries. Apparently, they pop up every so often. Unfortunatley you need a billion dollar bankroll to take advantage of them, and I don't think Thaler included taxes when he was doing the expected value calculations, so they might not really exist at all.

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Steve B

Worth reading... and reading again 20 years later

5 November 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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Read this book 20 years ago and loved it then.... just bought a copy for my nephew.

JoshK

Very interesting

22 September 2006 - Published on Amazon.com

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It gives you a great overview of some of the strange inconsitencies in human behavior. It is more than just a finance book and has many interesting stories that you can talk about with friends later.

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Ryan Coleman

by an economist, for an economist

9 May 2004 - Published on Amazon.com

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as an amateur economist grown increasingly dissatisfied w/ the failures of available theories, i was hopeful that this book would expound more on why markets fail. in some ways it did (in a very drab and boring language), although its coverage of financial markets (my interest) was all too brief and incomplete---the coverage of losers' outperformance of winners in equities was by far (IMHO) the best section of the book, but as good as that section was, the coverage of foreign exchange fluctuations was a failure. ---soros did a much better job of this.
there is some good material in this book, and i would give it 3 stars as a result, but the writing style makes it simply too inaccessible for the average reader. better financial market focus can be found in "reminisces of a stock operator" and "alchemy of finance", which really were accidental breakthroughs in behavioral finance (particularly the former--a gem of a book).
rhyno

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