Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
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Average rating3.7
GetAbstract Summary: Get the key points from this book in less than 10 minutes. In this lovely, useful book, Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein examine choices, biases and the limits of human reasoning from a variety of perspectives. They often amuse by disclosing how they have fallen victim to the limitations of thought that they are describing. The fact that these educated, articulate professionals can fool themselves so often demonstrates how tough it is to think clearly, a point the authors emphasize and even repeat. Humans fall prey to systematic errors of judgment, but you can harness this problematic tendency productively, including by helping others make better decisions. Some of the authors' suggestions may not be practical, but many are? and all are interesting. getAbstract recommends this book to anyone who wants to know how to shape responsible decisions. Book Publisher: Penguin.
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Definitely a strong 3.5 opposed to a straight 3. I found the concept of ‘nudges', the act of architecturally manipulating options in favour of positive behavioural change (both at the personal and community based level) to be quite fascinating. The term used to define people who make these institutions and options, ‘choice architects', is something I'd like to do more reading on as it's a skill most folks could harness from a capability point of view, and introduce into their line of work and study. At times I thought there was a glaze of unnecessary academic vernacular throughout the book, which distances readers who aren't firmly established in the authors' respective field of study. This caused the flow to be quite disrupted. Beyond that though, it was a fantastic read!
Excellent book. The ideas and concepts presented are very interesting, useful and fact supported. Even if I don't agree with some of the conclusions, particularly the ones regarding social and political issues (I know, most of the book), I think it is a great starting point.
German review.Nicht nur wer [b:Das anständige Unternehmen: Was richtige Führung ausmacht - und was sie weglässt 26830429 Das anständige Unternehmen Was richtige Führung ausmacht - und was sie weglässt Reinhard K. Sprenger https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1443457483s/26830429.jpg 46861633] gelesen hat, ahnt, dass sanfter Zwang immer noch Zwang ist.Es geht hier nicht um die Wiederbelebung von Tradition (im Sinne vererbten Verhaltens), sondern um Bevormundung, um Freiheitsberaubung im besten Sinne.
