H M. (anchovy) reviewed Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness on + 296 more book reviews
From the back cover: Nudge is about choices - how we make them and how we're led to make better ones. The authors offer a new perspective on how to prevent countless bad mistakes we make in our lives... Citing decades of cutting-edge behavioral science research, they demonstrate that sensible "choice architecture" can nudge people toward the best decision without restricting their freedom of choice... The paperback edition features an expanded list of recommendations on how to nudge each other toward better, smarter decisions.
Marcia C. reviewed Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness on + 623 more book reviews
This book from one of the founders of behavioral economics provides a good summary of research on human decisions, but then it goes hog-wild in suggesting "benevolent" government interventions that supposedly help citizens make better decisions. Too political in the second section. Also it makes too many questionable assumptions, such as that everyone should be in favor of organ donation. I do not want my organs harvested after death, and government should not have a policy about this.
