A review by kurtliske
Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler

4.0

Read as a follow up to Thinking, Fast and Slow by D. Kahneman. Solid book that drives home, more than anything else, the power of the default choice. I appreciated the Econs vs Humans analogy which helped confirm what I think many of us know all too well — human beings are not logical, Spock-like creatures despite what economists would like you to believe. We are quite fallible and susceptible to influences such as ‘bounded reality,’ ‘self-control problems,’ and, of course, ‘social influences.’ It was a strong book both made me further appreciate but also better understand the real-world limits of libertarianism. I’m not certain I’m ready to consider myself a Paternalistic Libertarian but I have a much better scope of libertarianism having read this book.