k2a.com - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Comparison Shopping and Read Reviews
|
SEARCH |
Index | Sitemap
|
|
C A T E G O R I E S
|
|
|
|
|
Health, mind & body
|
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
|
Sale Price: $17.16
List Price: $26.00
 |
Usually ships in 24 hours |
Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge is best read as a list of examples of and general principles for developing choice architecture in order to improve outcomes. It can provide an understanding of the pros can cons of opt-out, opt-in, forced choices, random selection, and default preferences.This book was sold to me as something more than that, and the authors continuously repeat their "libertarian paternalism" catch phrase. Simply put, there's very little that could be called libertarian about this book. School choice is a possible exception, but kids always complicate patterns.To quote the video of the authors on the book's amazon page, "this book is not so much about whether we should have big or small government." The primary failing is that while government programs may be improved through choice architecture, there will always be force involved to the extent that government is making decisions. Reducing the size of the government budget is by default a way to increase liberty, and their refusal to acknowledge that makes their "libertarian paternalism" mantra ring hollow.The most interesting fact I learned from this book is that the social security website has operating hours.
|
|
|
|
|
Home
| Index | Sitemap | Link
| Resources
|
