Marriage privatization their partnership; they would have a private marriage ceremony if they so chose in order to honor their private religious or philosophical concept of marriage. In a July 2008 article appearing in "The Monist" titled "Privatizing Marriage" Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein and University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler offer arguments for the privatization of marriage. Thaler and Sunstein also take up the topic in their co-authored 2008 book "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Wealth, Health, and Happiness." Sunstein and Thaler argue for marriage privatization among other positions under the heading of what they call "Libertarian Paternalism". Opposition to marriage
Nudge (book) deliberate and self-conscious. It is the one at work when people decide which college to attend, where to go on trips, and (under most circumstances) whether or not to get married. Because of these differences and conflicts between these systems, people are often subject to making mistakes that are the result of widely occurring biases, heuristics, and fallacies. These include: Libertarian paternalism (also called soft paternalism) is the union of two political notions commonly viewed as being at odds: libertarianism and paternalism. Sunstein and Thaler state that "the libertarian aspect of our strategies lies in the straightforward insistence that, in