Blurring Borders - Latest Comments in Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Jack — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:23:38 -0000

The book initially starts out very interesting in its theory. Once it starts moving on into its sections on how their theory could improve the different parts of our lives, to include money, health, and education, it just becomes very dull. For example, they go in depth into how to improve social security using in depth examples, when they could have gotten to the point. I beleive most of the book was written to fill enough pages to publish. The attempts at humor in this book are all directed at "econs", and is not quite as entertaining to the rest of us as it is to the authors. The stars are given only because of the first part of the book,which explains choice architecture. The rest of the book is given a one star, it was not worth reading beyond part 1.

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

james34 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:50:53 -0000

Thanks man, very good post.

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

wishnew — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:48:16 -0000

i have read it and its really make me little happy with the content

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

for you health — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:46:58 -0000

nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
keep it up

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

PR5_Web_Directory — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:41:28 -0000

well done. I'll definitely buy a copy sooner or later

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Johny — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:31:04 -0000

Nice review.
best regards

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Kevin — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 02:38:50 -0000

Can't find anything at WSJ.com about Quadir... can you?

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

chris kelley — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:40:44 -0000

*Bangladesh (not Indonesia)

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

chris kelley — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:06:43 -0000

Thanks for blogging about this. Read a little piece about it in WSJ or Newsweek and thought it was fascinating how smart minds can do little things to educate the less educated. Your buddy from Indonesia was also recently mentioned in the WSJ from 7/30 or 7/31. It referenced the Gates foundation trying to imitate his successes with local banking, etc in developing nations as part of its efforts to eliminate poverty. Feature article in WSJ, don't know if you have access though.

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Will — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:31:18 -0000

This sounds really appealing. Like you, I'm torn between a love for democracy and disappointment with what democracy sometimes produces.

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Kevin — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:43:43 -0000

Haha good point. Proofreading is boring and I often quit half-way through...

Re: Book Review: Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Nelson — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:03:02 -0000

In the last line, you mean Sunstein, not Sunstain. I would expect a sunstain to be something like a sunspot, only more permanent.