Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

Kudos to Thaler for applying so many principles from psychology to the practice of economics. This was a rehash of many ideas with which I was already familiar, so I was less than wowed by it all.

Listened to this audiobook on my commute. As someone interested in world politics & economics, I found it interesting. It gave many alternate ways of thinking of present day 'problems' and how we can 'nudge' people to making more rational (as defined by economics) decisions.

One basic premise, many thoroughly detailed examples. But the examples are super important life examples about investing, insurance, education and as such are pretty interesting. Be warned though, I don't think it really works as a self-help book. It's more about how governments, companies, or other large entities can point people in the right direction of their best decisions.

There's a political/economic bias in the book which the author admits ...read more