Nudge (book) way alongside Malcolm Gladwell's "Blink" (inferior social science, far breezier style) on the bestseller list". Elizabeth Kolbert writing for "The New Yorker" held reservations about some of the book's conclusions when she wrote that many of the suggestions in "Nudge" seem like good ideas, and even, as with “Save More Tomorrow,” practical ones. The whole project, though, as Thaler and Sunstein acknowledge, raises some pretty awkward questions. If the “nudgee” can’t be depended on to recognize his own best interests, why stop at a nudge? Why not offer a “push,” or perhaps even a “shove”? And if people can’t be
Cass Sunstein American legal scholar by a wide margin, followed by Erwin Chemerinsky and Richard A. Epstein. Sunstein was born on September 21, 1954 in Waban, Massachusetts to Marian (née Goodrich), a teacher, and Cass Richard Sunstein, a builder, both Jewish. He graduated in 1972 from Middlesex School and in 1975 with a B.A. from Harvard College, where he was a member of the varsity squash team and the "Harvard Lampoon". In 1978, Sunstein received a J.D. "magna cum laude" from Harvard Law School, where he was executive editor of the "Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review" and part of a winning