# Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

- **Author:** Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
- **Read:** October 2008
- **Topic:** Brain & Psychology
- **Published:** 2008
- **Pages:** 324
- **Picked by:** John
- **ISBN-13:** 9780141040011
- **Open Library:** https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3936258W
- **Cover:** https://rwbookclub.com/assets/images/covers/nudge-400.jpg
- **Canonical page:** https://rwbookclub.com/books/nudge/

## Synopsis

Thaler and Sunstein develop libertarian paternalism as a middle path between command-and-control and strict-neutrality choice architectures. Libertarian paternalism protects humans against their damaging psychological traits (inertia, bounded rationality, undue influence) by exploiting those habits to nudge people into making better choices.