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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181517463 Title: Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness Author: Richard H Thaler; Cass R Sunstein Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008. ISBN/ISSN: 9780300122237 0300122233 OCLC:181517463

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Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness

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Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness

Author:	Richard H Thaler; Cass R Sunstein
Publisher:	New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Thaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives without restricting their freedom of choice.
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors:	Richard H Thaler; Cass R Sunstein Find more information about:
ISBN:	9780300122237 0300122233
OCLC Number:	181517463
Notes:	"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Description:	x, 293 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:	Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Humans and econs -- 1. Biases and blunders -- 2. Resisting temptation -- 3. Following the herd -- 4. When do we need a nudge? -- 5. Choice architecture -- pt. 2. Money -- 6. Save more tomorrow -- 7. Naïve investing -- 8. Credit markets -- 9. Privatizing Social Security : smorgasbord style -- pt. 3. Health -- 10. Prescription drugs : Part D for daunting -- 11. How to increase organ donations -- 12. Saving the planet -- pt. 4. Freedom -- 13. Improving school choices -- 14. Should patients be forced to buy lottery tickets? -- 15. Privatizing marriage -- pt. 5. Extensions and objections -- 16. A dozen nudges -- 17. Objections -- 18. The real third way -- Notes -- Bibliography-- Index.
Responsibility:	Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein.
More information:	Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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Thaler and Sunstein offer a groundbreaking discussion of how to apply the science of choice to nudge people toward decisions that can improve their lives without restricting their freedom of choice.

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by steve.ely (WorldCat user on 2008-08-20)

Reviewed in Kiviat, Barbara. "Lured Toward the Right Choice." Time 171, no. 15 (April 14, 2008): 76-76. Academic Search Complete, EBSCOhost (accessed August 20, 2008).

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