Nudge Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Name: Nudge Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
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ISBN: 9780300122237

ISBN-10: 0300122233

ISBN-13: 9780300122237

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

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Every day we make decisions on topics ranging from the personal investments we select to the schools we pick for our children to the foods we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, as authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein astutely observe, we don’t always choose well. The reason, the authors explain, is that we all are susceptible to cognitive biases and blunders that make us human, fallible, and prone to error. nbsp; Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that recognizes our humanness as a given. They show that the way we think can be used to our advantage: it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Humans and Econs



Biases and Blunders



Resisting Temptation



Following the Herd



When Do We Need a Nudge?



Choice Architecture



Money



Save More Tomorrow



Naive Investing



Credit Markets



Privatizing Social Security: Smorgasbord Style



Health



Prescription Drugs: Part D for Daunting



How to Increase Organ Donations



Saving the Planet



Freedom



Improving School Choices



Should Patients Be Forced to Buy Lottery Tickets?



Privatizing Marriage



Extensions and Objections



A Dozen Nudges



Objections



The Real Third Way


Notes


Bibliography


Index