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
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