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Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.
- Title
- Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.
- Author
- Thaler, Richard H., 1945-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Sunstein, Cass R.
- Description
- x, 293 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Thaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives without restricting their freedom of choice.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-282) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Humans and econs -- 1. Biases and blunders -- 2. Resisting temptation -- 3. Following the herd -- 4. When do we need a nudge? -- 5. Choice architecture -- pt. 2. Money -- 6. Save more tomorrow -- 7. Naïve investing -- 8. Credit markets -- 9. Privatizing Social Security : smorgasbord style -- pt. 3. Health -- 10. Prescription drugs : Part D for daunting -- 11. How to increase organ donations -- 12. Saving the planet -- pt. 4. Freedom -- 13. Improving school choices -- 14. Should patients be forced to buy lottery tickets? -- 15. Privatizing marriage -- pt. 5. Extensions and objections -- 16. A dozen nudges -- 17. Objections -- 18. The real third way -- Notes -- Bibliography-- Index.
- ISBN
- 9780300146813 (electronic bk.)
- 9780300122237 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2007047528
- OCLC
- 181517463
- SCSB-10412749
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library