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“Doctors are crucial choice architects, and with an understanding of how Humans think, they could do far more to improve people’s health and thus to lengthen their lives.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

“In complex situations, the Just Maximize Choices mantra is not enough to create good policy.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

“So to put it simply, forcing people to choose is not always wise, and remaining neutral is not always possible.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness

“Be wary of your intuitions, especially intuitions about how your own mind works.”
― Christopher Chabris, The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuition Deceives Us

“El capuchino invisible 1,90 libras”
― Tim Harford, El economista camuflado: La economía de las pequeñas cosas

“La economía tiene que ver con la decisión de Yang Li.”
― Tim Harford, El economista camuflado: La economía de las pequeñas cosas

“Immediate scarcity looms large, and important things unrelated to it will be neglected. When”
― Sendhil Mullainathan, Scarcity: Why having too little means so much

“Here’s the thing about failure in innovation: it’s a price worth paying. We”
― Tim Harford, Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

“Los sujetos no elegían entre cosas. Elegían entre descripciones de cosas.”
― Michael Lewis, The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds

“Many people have made money selling magic potions and Ponzi schemes, but few have gotten rich selling the advice, “Don’t buy that stuff.”
― Richard H. Thaler, Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics