理查德·塞勒获2017年诺贝尔经济学奖

理查德·塞勒获2017年诺贝尔经济学奖

US economist Richard Thaler, one of the founding fathers of behavioural economics, has won this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics.

美国经济学家理查德.泰勒获得了今年的诺贝尔经济学奖，他是行为经济学的创始人之一。

Prof Thaler, of Chicago Booth business school, co-wrote the global best seller Nudge, which looked at how people make bad or irrational choices.

芝加哥布兹商学院的泰勒教授与他人合写了全球畅销书《助推》，该书研究了人们如何做出糟糕或不理性的选择。

Judges said he had demonstrated how "nudging" - a term he coined - may help people to exercise better self-control.

评委们表示，他诠释了他发明的术语“助推”如何帮助人们进行更好的自我控制。

He will receive 9 million Swedish krona (?850,000) from the committee.

他将从委员会那里收到900万瑞典克朗（850000英镑）。

"I will try to spend it as irrationally as possible!" the 72 year-old economist said.

这位72岁的经济学家表示：“我将努力尽可能地非理性花费这笔钱。”