Very interesting, and I think it taught me a lot about insurance as a young person just entering the work force. Hopefully it will motivate and educate my research for years to come as I "Nudge for good".

Nudge atau dorongan dengan pola paternalisme libertarian dapat mengarahkan pengambilan keputusan mulai dari perkara ekonomi, kesehatan, lingkungan, bahkan mungkin pernikahan.

Beragam arsitektur pilihan dapat mendorong orang-orang mulai dari membuat sistem otomatis dengan satu kali klik, menampilkan angka orang yang memilih suatu keputusan tertentu, maupun membantu menahan diri dengan mengaktifkan sistem reflektif alih-alih sistem otomatis.

Versi terjemahannya memiliki sedikit kesalahan pengetikan yang bisa dimaklumi tapi terasa sedikit mengganggu.

Well, theory is good. IT is about how you architect choices so that you influence people. Examples are given from real-life which are really important examples. But for me it was mostly US based so didnt touch me much.

Interesting to think about the ‘choice architecture’ and how many ways you are manipulated into picking something or accepting something. Hopefully reading this will make me more aware of when it is being done to me. Slightly too American focused for me.

My Recommendation: I would definitely recommend this if you have any interest in business, sociology, politics, marketing, fundraising, entrepreneurship or anything tangentially connected to these. It’s a fascinating look into how people’s brains work and how our brains work within a society. I think it would be very interesting to see an update of this book now that it’s almost 10 years old.

My Response: I’m really taking to heart all of the articles I read about the most successful people and I’m trying to read one nonfiction book that will teach me something every month this year. I just looked back on all my stats from the last year and I’ve averaged 16 nonfiction books a year.

I’m still not 100% sure what list I saw this on, but I picked up a copy back in August of 2016. It was probably when I started reading about the importance of mental acuity and keeping your mind sharp and constantly learning how to do new things. That or it was when I was dealing with some craziness at work and needed all the advice I could get! Pick any number of these professional development books and you’ll see what I mean, specifically those dealing with conflict.

Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
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Listened to this on 2x speed for a policy seminar course, it's prescriptions over all were so anodyne and boring that I'm amazed that it caused the waves that it did.

Starts off promising by discussing experimental results and providing some great examples of how small "nudges" can sway irrational Human decision makers. Transitions too quickly from the theoretical to a practical in-the-weeds policy level. Too many of the later chapters seem uncontroversial and dull - but maybe that's because they've already become accepted wisdom, or perhaps I've recently been reading too many similar more recent books which have already referenced this one so heavily they spoiled all the big surprises. Don't know how internally consistent the core tenets of the ill-defined "libertarian paternalism" seem to be.

Makes some great points - especially hammering home the fact that avoiding nudging isn't possible since any conceivable neutral or default option is itself pushing in some direction. Solid throughout, a high 3. The audiobook narrator was unfortunately pretty bad, he had a monotonous delivery that make it difficult to distinguish even chapter/section headings from the rest of the text.

It is interesting to see our human biases. But it was not as helpful to individuals as much as I was hoping.

definitely one of the less obnoxious pop behavioral economics/psychology books now in vogue. perhaps the best insight in the book is the notion that we are least prepared and worst equipped to understand the consequences of some of the most rare, complicated, and important economic decisions we make in our lives, whereas we are very well equipped to make mundane economic choices.

however, none of the policy proposals outlined are actually that groundbreaking or innovative. people act irrationally, people procrastinate, participation in organ donor programs increases markedly under opt-out schemes -- insights like this are not earth-shattering.

lastly, it's kind of a boring read after a few chapters, and it is filled with cloying asides about Sunstein and Thaler's lunch dates, their email exchanges, tennis games, etc etc. also seemed to have a strange predilection for examples involving food, calories, and weight loss.