'Big Short' Professor's Fund Swells in Past Year

By
John Gittelsohn
Updated on
  • Thaler's $3.7 billion Behavioral Value pool beat 99% of peers
  • JPMorgan vehicle unearths `dogs that are going to look better'

Richard Thaler.

 Photographer: Carsten Rehder/AP Photo

Richard Thaler’s cameo in the Oscar contending movie “The Big Short” was a rare moment of glamour for an economist who built his career studying the follies of human behavior.

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