Richard Thaler is coauthor, with Cass Sunstein, of "Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness" (Yale University Press, 2008). "Nudge" discusses how public and private organizations can help people make better choices in their daily lives. "People often make poor choices—and look back at them with bafflement!" Thaler and Sunstein write. "We do this because as human beings, we all are susceptible to a wide array of routine biases that can lead to an equally wide array of embarrassing blunders in education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, happiness, and even the planet itself." Thaler and his co-author coined
Geneva thaler Swiss Confederation in 1815, the thaler was readopted as the currency of Geneva. It circulated until 1839, when it was replaced by the franc. In the late 18th century, billon coins were issued in denominations of 6 and 9 deniers, 1, , 3 and 6 sols, together with silver 15 sols, and 1 thaler and gold 1 and 3 "pistole". The thaler were coined as "VI FLORINS IV VI", whilst the 1 thaler were coined "XII FLORINS IX SOLS". Geneva thaler The thaler was the currency of the Geneva until 1798 (except briefly between 1794 and 1795) and between 1813