Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and HappinessNow available: Nudge: The Final Edition The original edition of the multimillion-copy New York Times bestseller by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Richard H. Thaler, and Cass R. Sunstein: a revelatory look at how we make decisions—for fans of Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, James Clear’s Atomic Habits, and Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow 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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User Review - riida - LibraryThingmy first DNF for the year... i'm disappointed with myself...for a long time i was looking forward to reading this book, only to get so bogged down i had to finally give up a few pages short of the ... Read full review
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User Review - BookConcierge - LibraryThingDigital audiobook read by Lloyd James. Thaler and Sunstein are professors specializing in Behavioral Economics. This work explores the ways in which decision options are presented to achieve the ... Read full review
Contents
PARTI | 6 |
Biases and Blunders | 17 |
Resisting Temptation | 40 |
Following the Herd | 53 |
When Do We Need a Nudge? | 74 |
Choice Architecture | 83 |
PART II | 103 |
Naïve Investing | 120 |
PART III | 159 |
How to Increase Organ Donations | 177 |
Saving the Planet | 185 |
PART IV | 199 |
Privatizing Marriage | 217 |
A Dozen Nudges | 231 |
Objections | 239 |
The Real Third Way | 255 |
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness Richard H. Thaler No preview available - 2008 |
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| Title | Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness |
| Authors | Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Penguin, 2009 |
| ISBN | 1101655097, 9781101655092 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Decision-Making & Problem Solving Self-Help / Self-Management / General Social Science / Sociology / Social Theory |
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