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
Thaler (modern: ) is German for "valley", and a "thaler" is a person or a thing "from the valley". The Czech spelling was ; many varieties of the term are used in different languages. In the 1902 spelling reform, the German spelling was changed from "Thal" and "Thaler" to "Tal" and "Taler", which however did not affect the English spelling of "thaler". The later Dutch also carried the picture of a lion, which gave them the name ("lion thaler"). From an abbreviation of "leeuwendaalder" come the names of three present-day Balkan currencies, the Romanian and Moldovan Leu and the Bulgarian Lev.