Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College. Schwartz has written ten books and more than 100 articles for professional journals. He has published articles in sources as diverse as The New York Times, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, Scientific American, The New Republic, the Harvard Business Review, and the Guardian. He has appeared on dozens of radio shows, including NPR’s Morning Edition, and Talk of the Nation, and has been interviewed on Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN), the Lehrer News Hour (PBS), and CBS Sunday Morning. He has lectured to audiences as large as 5000, among them the British and the Dutch governments. He has given two TED talks and two TEDX talks. In 2004, Schwartz published The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, which was named one of the top business books of the year by both Business Week and Forbes Magazine, and has been translated into twenty languages. Schwartz’s most recent book, authored with Kenneth Sharpe, is Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (2010).
- Choice, Freedom, and Autonomy (Book Chapter, 2012) in Meaning, Morality, and Choice: The Social Psychology of Existential Concerns (Eds. P. R. Shaver and M. Mikulincer)
- Too Much of a Good Thing: The Challenge and Opportunity of the Inverted U (with Adam Grant, 2011) Perspectives on Psychological Science
- Maximizing Versus Satisficing: Happiness Is a Matter of Choice (with A. Ward, J. Monterosso, S. Lyubomirsky, K. White, and D. R. Lehman, 2002) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Self-determination: The tyranny of freedom (2000) American Psychologist
- Why Altruism is Impossible…And Ubiquitous (1993) Social Service Review
Other Popular Articles
- Did your brain make you do it? (with John Monterosso 2012) The New York Times
- Lotteries for College Admissions (2012) The Atlantic
- “Human nature” is often the product of nurture (2012) Wired UK
- Consumption Makes Us Sad? Science Says We Can Be Happy With Less (2012) The Daily Beast
- Colleges Should Teach Intellectual Virtues (2012) The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Economics Made Easy: Think Friction (2012) The New York Times
- Upside of the Downturn (2012) The Chronicle of Higher Education
Books

- Practical Wisdom: The Right Way to Do the Right Thing (Co-authored with Kenneth Sharpe 2010)
