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Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Richard H. Thaler

Paperback | Pages: 314 pages

Rating: 3.84 | 56637 Users | 2837 Reviews

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Original Title:	Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
ISBN:	014311526X (ISBN13: 9780143115267)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2008)

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From the winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions

New York Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist and the Financial Times

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.

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Title	:	Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Author	:	Richard H. Thaler
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Revised and Expanded Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 314 pages
Published	:	February 24th 2009 by Penguin Books (first published April 8th 2008)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Psychology. Economics. Business. Self Help. Science. Politics

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Ratings: 3.84 From 56637 Users | 2837 Reviews

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Even though it has a very valuable core idea, it was a very difficult read for multiple reasons.It's way too verbose and way too American.I was expecting universal personality nudges, not american health industry changes that politicians should do, or 401k changes that Americans should consider, or the Boston system for choosing schools, or how you should allocate your stocks and bonds.And all these in separate, excruciatingly long and detailed chapters, outlining history and unrelated details,

The book has some value, but the title led me to pick it up under the belief that it might help me to understand myself better and learn better ways to navigate my choices. It turned out to be more of a laundry list of examples how businesses try to manipulate us, a list that was nudged into book-length...

If youre like most Americans, chances are you made a New Years resolution to hit the gym, lay off the smokes or eat more green vegetables. And again, if youre anything like most Americans, chances are you and your resolution parted ways sometime around Valentines Day. Take heart: youre not alone, and its not that you actually want to spend more hours watching sitcom rerunsyou just need a nudge.Most humans are remarkably bad at making choices in their own best interest. We make predictable and

This is a terrific book. The authors cover terrain which has been explored recently in a whole slew of books: loosely speaking, why we humans persistently engage in behavior patterns which do not benefit us in the long term. Their own research, at the University of Chicago, builds upon the work of Tversky and Kahneman in behavioral economics (very much in vogue this past few years). In the book, they provide a funny, engaging, remarkably clear exposition of the various factors which lead us to

If youre like most Americans, chances are you made a New Years resolution to hit the gym, lay off the smokes or eat more green vegetables. And again, if youre anything like most Americans, chances are you and your resolution parted ways sometime around Valentines Day. Take heart: youre not alone, and its not that you actually want to spend more hours watching sitcom rerunsyou just need a nudge.Most humans are remarkably bad at making choices in their own best interest. We make predictable and

This is not a well-written book. The writing is prosaic. The pacing is meh. You will almost certainly have no trouble putting it down. It is, however, a book almost everyone should read - especially politicians, technocrats, and others in positions of public policy.Sunstein and Thaler argue that dramatic changes in human behavior can be effected through sensible changes in "choice architecture". Choice architecture is the orchestration of options. It can range from how choices are presented

To understand my five star rating there are a few things you must understand about me. First, I love economics, and this book is not for the casual Freakonomics reader, but for someone who really cares about the subject. Second, I share the authors' politics. I have been shouting some of the policies they promote in this book for as long as I can remember. Like marriage! Come on, why does the government need to stick it's nose into the definition of something that is clearly between the people