Richard Thaler was a former professor at the Johnson School of Management and recipient of the 2017 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to behavioral economics, much of which occurred during his tenure at Cornell. On October 17, 2025, he returned to campus for a Q&A to celebrate the publication of his new book Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now.

Cornell Chronicle Nobel laureate Richard Thaler delights in the human side of economics