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rebeccabrooker 's review for:
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
I wish I could give this book 2.5 stars, because I feel like I am exactly in between "it was okay" and "i liked it." i think it is an interesting read if you don't have anything else that you're working on. the more i read, the more i wondered how much of a background in human behavior the authors have. i'm not sure that i totally agree with the ways that they predict people will act or the arguments that some of these nudges aren't essentially dictating behavior (if we are, in fact, employing them because we think we know how people will make their choices). However, I did think that a lot of the ideas included were interesting and do raise some very interesting questions about how people make decisions (i.e., i'm not sure that they know, but i don't know either!). I don't know that I'd pressure anyone to read this, but I certainly wouldn't discourage it.