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The central claim of the book is that human decision-making isn't as rational as Economists assume (or model) it to be, and we make many counter-productive choices due to a variety of biases/ heuristics (loss aversion, anchoring, social conformity, overconfidence & self-control issues). That is, some of our decisions are "path dependent" - they are affected not only by the (economic) costs & returns, but also by the context ("choice architecture"). This can be utilized by system designers to imp
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This is a good choice to read after Kahneman's "Thinking, fast and slow" (in fact Kahneman approves of "Nudge" at the end of his book). The book is a large list of policies in all venues of political and personal life which try to correct (and/or utilize) inherent humant cognitive biases to improve our well being while retaining the principle of free choice*.
The last part of the book then contains pre-emptive responses to the main (mostly libertarian) criticism of this approach. I think this apo ...more
The last part of the book then contains pre-emptive responses to the main (mostly libertarian) criticism of this approach. I think this apo ...more
Mal razočaran, ker sem praktično vse ideje že prebral v povzetkih, recenzijah, blogih... Vsekakor koristne ideje, ampak mogoče še vedno premalo primerov.
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