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Science 11 July 2008:
Vol. 321. no. 5886, p. 203
DOI: 10.1126/science.1159819
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ECONOMICS:
Tilt the Table Toward Good Choices

Eric J. Johnson

Nudge
Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 303 pp. $26, £18. ISBN 9780300122237.
The authors marshal results from behavioral economics research to argue for using asymmetric choice architecture to exert a "libertarian paternalism" on social and economic choices.
The reviewer is at the Columbia Center for Excellence in E-Business, Uris Hall 514, Columbia Business School, 3022 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA. E-mail: ejj3{at}columbia.edu

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