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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 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
- 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