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Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness / Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thaler, Richard H., 1945- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economics--Psychological aspects.
- Economics.
- Choice (Psychology)--Economic aspects.
- Choice (Psychology).
- Decision making--Psychological aspects.
- Decision making.
- Consumer behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 312 pages) : illustrations
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Revised and expanded edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2009.
- System Details:
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- Nudge is about choices-how we make them and how we're led to make better ones. Authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein offer a new perspective on how to prevent the countless bad mistakes we make in our lives-including ill-advised personal investments, consumption of unhealthy foods, neglect of our natural resources, and other numerous bad decisions regarding health care, our families, and education. Citing decades of cutting-edge behavioral science research, they demonstrate that sensible "choice architecture" can successfully nudge people toward the best decision without restricting their freedom of choice. Terrifically straightforward, informative, and often very entertaining, this book is a must read for anyone with an interest in our individual and collective well-being.
- The paperback edition features an expanded list of recommendations on how to nudge each other toward better, smarter decisions.
- Contents:
- Biases and blunders
- Resisting temptation
- Following the herd
- When do we need a nudge?
- Choice architecture
- Save more tomorrow
- Naïve investing
- Credit markets
- Privatizing social security : Smorgasboard style
- Prescription drugs : Part D for daunting
- How to increase organ donations
- Saving the planet
- Improving school choices
- Should patients be forced to buy lottery tickets?
- Privatizing marriage
- A dozen nudges
- Objections
- The real third way
- Bonus chapter : twenty more nudges
- Postscript : November 2008.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-302) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Thaler, Richard H., 1945- Nudge.
- ISBN:
- 0300146817
- 9780300146813
- 9781101655092
- 1101655097
- 9780141976105
- 0141976101
- 9786612088780
- 6612088788
- Publisher Number:
- 99985196848
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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