FacebookPinterestScott OlsonUniversity of Chicago Professor Richard Thaler walks past portraits of previous Nobel winners as he arrives at his office after learning he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
It has been postulated that the quality of one’s golf game correlates to their intelligence, or lack of it. The late Scottish author Sir Walter Simpson noted as such in his book, The Art of Golf.
“Excessive golfing dwarfs the intellect,” he wrote. “Nor is this to be wondered at when we consider that the more fatuously vacant the mind is, the better for play. It has been observed that absolute idiots play the steadiest.”
So with that in mind we’ll make the leap that Richard Thaler, though an avid golfer, is not necessarily a skilled one. Thaler, a University of Chicago economics professor, recently was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for his contributions to behavioural economics.”
“Richard H. Thaler has incorporated ..