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The nudge blog is the online companion to richard thaler and cass sunsteins nudge. Divided democracy in the age of social media cass r. The bestselling author of simpler offers a powerful, provocative, and convincing argument for protecting people from their own mistakes based on a series of pathbreaking lectures given at yale university in, this powerful, thought provoking work by national best selling author cass r sunstein combines legal theory with behavioral economics to make a fresh argument about the legitimate scope. Books on thoughtprovoking, criticalthinking, cognitive science, business, biographies, selfimprovement and so on. In an age of information overload, it is easy to fall back on our own prejudices and insulate ourselves with comforting opinions that reaffirm our core beliefs.
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Improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness article pdf available january 2008 with 9,3 reads how we measure reads. Sunstein is currently the robert walmsley university professor at harvard. Nobel laureate richard thaler and legal scholar and bestselling author cass sunstein explain in this important exploration of choice architecture that, being. It is a book that people interested in any aspect of public policy should read.
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