Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Author: Richard H. Thaler

Publisher: Penguin Random House

ISBN: 9780143115267

Weight: 0.300kg

Pages: 312pp

Year: 2009

Price: RM65

Every day we make choices—about what to buy or eat, about financial investments or our children’s health and education, even about the causes we champion or the planet itself. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. Nudge is about how we make these choices and how we can make better ones. Using dozens of eye-opening examples and drawing on decades of behavioral science research, Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School professor Cass R. Sunstein show that no choice is ever presented to us in a neutral way, and that we are all susceptible to biases that can lead us to make bad decisions. But by knowing how people think, we can use sensible “choice architecture” to nudge people toward the best decisions for ourselves, our families, and our society, without restricting our freedom of choice.