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Nudge

Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

BusinessChoice (Psychology)Consumer behaviorDecision makingEconomic aspectsEconomic aspects of Choice (Psychology)EconomicsNonfiction

Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans against their damaging psychological traits (inertia, bounded rationality, undue influence) by exploiting those habits to nudge people into making better choices.

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