Honors for Predictably Irrational (2008)
Jan
20
So — here is the summary of 2008 honors for Predictably Irrational
1) “New York Times Best Seller” for Non-fiction
2) Amazon Best Books of 2008, Customers’ Bestsellers: #23
3) Amazon Best Books of 2008, Customers’ Bestsellers in business category: #1
4) Hudson books — #1 book in business category
5) Business Week: The Best Business Books of 2008
6) 100 Notable Books of 2008 (NYT)
7) BNET’s Best Business Books of 2008
8) One of the top 8 Books of 2008 for Church Leaders!
9) Barnes And Noble: Best books of 2008 on Our Modern World
10) Seed Magazine, Book picks for 2008
– not a bad list….
Best
Dan
My latest book, The Upside of Irrationality, explores some positive and some negative ways that irrationality plays out in our lives.
Dan,
Not a bad list at all!
Three common threads in each realm (above) are 1) your humility, 2) your generosity, and 2) your helpfulness.
It’s as if you’re just one beggar telling all the other beggars where the bread is.
Would that we all commit to pass it on.
If there is ever a time our world could benefit, that time is now.
Well done,
Jonathan Smith
Well done. And thank you. Your writing has had quite an impact on me. Here’s hoping it impacts positively on others too.
I think this should be read as an indicator to Universities around the country that they should be developing Behavioral Economic graduate programs.
I’m in the market for applying to Econ Phd programs but can’t find enough programs that focus on the Behavioral issues that I’m interested in.
http://www.economixt.com
Congrats Dan. The accolades are well deserved. I just received my copy yesterday and am already half finished. The book is fantastic. I skipped Starbucks this morning!
It is a shame there is no honor for usefulness… Unlike many other popular business books, this one teaches you a new way to look at things and I keep going back to what I learned there.
Well done, Dan.
Great book! It really makes me question myself. By the way, I have been mulling over the honesty/dishonesty question, particularly the one involving taking the red pen from work. I would do this, for sure, with no guilt. My boss wouldn’t care, nor would the founder/owner of the company. Why? Is this because we are viewing it through the lens of a social norm rather than a market norm? (Taking home the occasional red pen is a perk- one of the nice things about being employed as a professional. Kind of like when the volunteers got the Snickers bar but didn’t view it as payment.)
On the other hand, I would never dream of taking home the entire supply of red pens in the office supply cabinet. That would feel like stealing. Why is that?
Hi Dan
Predictably Irrational is one of the Audible picks of the week for This Week In Tech 178:
http://twit.tv/178
(The other is Freakonomics.)
J
Congrats, Dan. Your book has changed how people view their world. What more can anyone ask?
Best, Michael