Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and HappinessA New York Times bestseller with more than 1.5 million copies sold Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist and the Financial Times “An essential read . . . loaded with good ideas that financial-service executives, policy makers, Wall Street mavens, and all savers can use.”—John F. Wasik, Boston Globe “Save the planet, save yourself. Do-gooders, policymakers, this one's for you.”—Newsweek Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nobel laureate Richard Thaler and legal scholar and bestselling author Cass Sunstein explain in this important exploration of choice architecture that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. In Nudge, Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take—from neither the left nor the right—on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative books to come along in many years. |
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... Marriage 215 PART V EXTENSIONS AND OBJECTIONS 16 A Dozen Nudges 229 17 Objections 236 18 The Real Third Way 252 Notes 255 Bibliography 263 Index 283 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The research for this book would not have been YD8883.i-x 1/24/08 12:19 ...
... marriage, and health care, we will offer specific suggestions in keeping with our general ap- proach. And by insisting that choices remain unrestricted, we think that the risks of inept or even corrupt designs are reduced. Freedom to ...
... married couples if the dating question is replaced by a lovemaking question.5 you In the language of this book, anchors serve as nudges. We can influence the figure you will choose in a particular situation by ever-so-subtly sug ...
... marriage will end in divorce — even those who have already been di- vorced ! 10 ( Second marriage , Samuel Johnson once quipped , “ is the tri- umph of hope over experience . ” ) A similar point applies to entrepreneurs starting new ...
... exactly no changes to the way their contributions were being allo- cated. Perhaps even more telling, many married participants who were sin- BIASES AND BLUNDERS 35 gle when they joined the plan YD8883.015-039 1/24/08 12:34 PM Page 34.
Contents
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When Do We Need a Nudge? | 72 |
Choice Architecture | 81 |
MONEY | 93 |
Smorgasbord Style | 145 |
Part D for Daunting | 159 |
How to Increase Organ Donations | 175 |
Saving the Planet | 183 |
Improving School Choices | 199 |
Should Patients Be Forced to Buy Lottery Tickets? | 207 |
Privatizing Marriage | 215 |
PART V | 227 |
Save More Tomorrow | 103 |
Naïve Investing | 118 |
Credit Markets | 132 |
Objections | 236 |
The Real Third Way | 252 |
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Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness Richard H. Thaler No preview available - 2008 |