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Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness  Cover Image Book Book

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

Thaler, Richard H., 1945- (Author). Sunstein, Cass R. (Added Author).

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780143115267 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 014311526X (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: viii, 312 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: Rev. and expanded ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-302) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Biases and blunders -- Resisting temptation -- Following the herd -- When do we need a nudge? -- Choice architecture -- Save more tomorrow -- Naive 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.
Subject: Economics > Psychological aspects.
Choice (Psychology) > Economic aspects.
Decision making > Psychological aspects.
Consumer behavior.
Economics > Psychological aspects.
Choice (Psychology) > Economic aspects.
Decision making > Psychological aspects.
Consumers.
Gezondheidszorg.
Overheidsbeleid.
Alltag.
Entscheidungsverhalten.
Verbesserung.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.

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