Nudge, Richard H. Thaler
Nudge, Richard H. Thaler
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Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Author: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

Narrator: Sean Pratt

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 06/11/2008


Synopsis

From 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 and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.

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.

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 Kevin on April 28, 2015

I know Sunstein scares Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh, but the idea of using behavioral science in government isn't radical or at least shouldn't be. Britain's conservative government created a board to advise govt policymakers with the latest research. It's more helpful than astrology (see Reagan adm......more

Goodreads review by Jorge on July 24, 2021

A balanced account on when governments should intervene when behavorial market failures occur. The main idea behind the book is that humans tend to be biased when making decisions that could potentially leave them better welfare over the long run. Sunstein doesn't want to say it but he implicitly sug......more

Goodreads review by Reza on November 16, 2021

As a citizen, state paternalism is a very annoying concept for me, especially if the government which is in charge of my live is known for its reputation of being incompetent most of the time (guess where I live!). The concept of nudge itself, in my opinion, is an interesting, if not outright sinist......more

Goodreads review by Anna on October 23, 2020

A lot to learn here. Mostly I discovered that I am not remotely a libertarian and am fine with all of the nudges Sunstein discusses. Restaurants, put the healthy menu on the front slate board, car salepeople, give the vehicles A through F ratings for energy efficiency. If 2016-2020 has taught us any......more

Goodreads review by Julie on August 08, 2019

I think the most important point in this book is that in many ways we are surrounded by choices that someone has already made for us, and that having more choices is not always more free. We can spend so much time protecting ourselves from poor choices that we have no time to do anything else. That'......more