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
Mike Thaler cartoon which he submitted to "Harper's Bazaar" called "The Fallen Star". It was published in the December 1960 issue. In December 1960, Thaler was asked to submit a manuscript for a children's book to Ursula Nordstrom, an editor at Harper and Brothers, after she read "The Fallen Star." Nordstrom decided to publish his manuscript, called "Magic Boy", in 1961. This was his first published book. Nordstrom selected three of Thaler's manuscripts to publish in 1962 and 1963: "The Clown’s Smile, Penny Pencil" and "Moon Boy". All were illustrated by Thaler. For 28 years, from 1961 to 1989, 76 books by