Nudge (book) nudge?" Nudge (book) Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness is a book written by University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler and Harvard Law School Professor Cass R. Sunstein, first published in 2008. The book draws on research in psychology and behavioral economics to defend libertarian paternalism and active engineering of choice architecture. The book received largely positive reviews. "The Guardian" described it as "never intimidating, always amusing and elucidating: a jolly economic romp but with serious lessons within." It was named one of the best books of 2008 by "The Economist". One of the main justifications for
Mike Thaler country as one of the authors for the Jello Reading Rocket program for one year. In 1989, a picture book called "The Teacher From the Black Lagoon™", written by Thaler and illustrated by Jared Lee, was published by Dodd, Mead & Company, Little Brown & Company, and Scholastic. From 1989–2007, The Black Lagoon™ picture book series adds 20 more titles, with 3 of the titles receiving International Reading Children's Choice Awards: "The Cafeteria Lady (1992), The Music Teacher"(2001) & "The Custodian"(2002). In 2002, Scholastic released the first Black Lagoon™ Chapter book, "The Class Trip from the Black Lagoon". Between 2002