Nudge Revised Edition, Richard H. Thaler
Nudge Revised Edition, Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge (Revised Edition)
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Author: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Narrator: Lloyd James

Unabridged: 11 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 02/23/2009

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself.

Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take—from neither the left nor the right—on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audio books to come along in many years.
Included in this recording are a Bonus Chapter and a Postscript added in the Paperback Edition.

About Richard H. Thaler

Richard H. Thaler received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. He is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and director of the University of Chicago’s Center for Decision Research. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research where he co-directs their behavioral economics project. He is the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness (with Cass Sunstein) and the author of Quasi Rational Economics. He is also one in a rotating team of economists who writes for the New York Times “Economic View” column.


Reviews

Goodreads review by da on August 03, 2018

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-le......more

Goodreads review by David on June 10, 2017

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It starts out like many other pop psychology books, describing an array of psychology experiments that are so often in the literature. But, at some point in the book, the story takes a turn into a direction that few other books seem to touch. Nudge is really......more

Goodreads review by Phoenix on January 04, 2023

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, and Cass E. Sunstein is a book that can broaden your point of view on multiple life aspects. Indeed, this book is mind-changing. It is written by two great writers which makes it so special and unique.......more