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
Basel thaler the Bishopric of Basel. However, the Bishopric continued to issue billon coins, in denominations of and 1 Batzen, and silver coins for 12 and 24 Kreuzer (3 and 6 Batzen). Basel thaler The Basel Thaler was the currency of the Swiss Canton of Basel until 1798. The currency was issued by both the Canton and the Bishopric of Basel. The basic unit was the thaler, which was subdivided into 30 "Batzen", each of 4 "Kreuzer" or 8 "Rappen". It was replaced by the Frank of the Helvetian Republic in 1798. This was, in turn, replaced by the Basel Frank. The