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 Geneva thaler The thaler was the currency of the Geneva until 1798 (except briefly between 1794 and 1795) and between 1813 and 1839. It was subdivided into 12¾ "florins", each of 12 "sols", with the sol divided into 12 "deniers". The thaler was the currency of the Republic of Geneva until 1794, when it was replaced by the "genevoise". The genevoise only circulated until the next year, when the thaler was reinstated as the Republic's currency. In 1798, Geneva was annexed by France and the French franc replaced the thaler. After regaining independence from France in 1813 and joining the