Nudge The Final Edition, Richard H. Thaler
Nudge The Final Edition, Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge: The Final Edition
Improving Decisions About Money, Health, And The Environment

Author: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 08/03/2021

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the title has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, engaged citizens, and consumers everywhere. The book has given rise to more than 200 "nudge units" in governments around the world and countless groups of behavioral scientists in every part of the economy. It has taught us how to use thoughtful "choice architecture"—a concept the authors invented—to help us make better decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society.

Now, the authors have rewritten the book from cover to cover, making use of their experiences in and out of government over the past dozen years as well as an explosion of new research in numerous academic disciplines. To commit themselves to never undertaking this daunting task again, they are calling this the "final edition." It offers a wealth of new insights, for both its avowed fans and newcomers to the field, about a wide variety of issues that we face in our daily lives—COVID-19, health, personal finance, retirement savings, credit card debt, home mortgages, medical care, organ donation, climate change, and "sludge" (paperwork and other nuisances we don't want, and that keep us from getting what we do want)—all while honoring one of the cardinal rules of nudging: make it fun!

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