Research Catalog

Title

Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.

Author

Thaler, Richard H., 1945-

Publication

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sunstein, Cass R.

Description

viii, 312 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

Offering a study of the application of the science of choice, a guide that uses examples from all aspects of life demonstrates how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests.

Subject

• Economics > Psychological aspects
• Choice (Psychology) > Economic aspects
• Decision making > Psychological aspects
• Consumer behavior
• Economics
• Choice Behavior
• Community Participation
• Decision Making

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-302) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part I. Humans and econs : Biases and blunders -- Resisting temptation -- Following the herd -- When do we need a nudge? -- Choice architecture -- Part II. Money : Save more tomorrow -- Naïve investing -- Credit markets -- Privatizing social security: smorgasboard style -- Part III. Health : Prescription drugs: Part D for daunting -- How to increase organ donations -- Saving the planet -- Part IV. Freedom : Improving school choices -- Should patients be forced to buy lottery tickets? -- Privatizing marriage -- Part V. Extensions and objections : A dozen nudges -- Objections -- The real third way -- Bonus chapter: twenty more nudges -- Postscript : November 2008.

ISBN

• 9780143115267 (pbk.)
• 014311526X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2007047528

OCLC

• 310424265
• SCSB-10620576

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library