Nudge: Improving decisions about health wealth and happiness. (Record no. 294600)
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| fixed length control field | 01352nam a2200169Ia 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780141040011 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 330.019 THA-N |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Richard H Thaler |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nudge: Improving decisions about health wealth and happiness. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | x, 305 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Humans and econs. Biases and blunders -- Resisting temptation -- Following the herd -- When do we need a nudge -- Choice architecture -- Money. Save more tomorrow -- Naïve investing -- Credit markets -- Privatizing social security : smorgasborg style -- Society. Prescription drugs : part D for daunting -- How to increase organ donations -- Saving the planet -- Privatizing marriage -- Extensions and objections. A dozen nudges -- Objections -- The real third way. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Every day we make decisions, and we don't always choose well. The authors of this book believe that the reason for this is that we are all susceptible to cognitive biases and blunders that make us prone to error. But they demonstrate how we can use our human fallability and the way we think to our advantage. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Economics -- Psychological aspects. Choice (Psychology) -- Economic aspects. Decision making -- Psychological aspects. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Cass R Sunstein |
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| Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Processing Center | 01/09/2015 | 330.019 THA-N | DCB1231 | 01/09/2015 | 19/07/2019 | Book |