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
It Was Written in the song "Takeover" (2001) for assuming a "Pablo Escobar" persona and having a "one hot album ["Illmatic"] every ten year average". Nas, however, made something of a comeback with his fifth album "Stillmatic" (2001) and the follow-up "God's Son" (2002), which both sold in excess of 1 million copies. Afterwards, his subsequent albums tended to receive more positive reviews, including the platinum-selling "Street's Disciple" (2004) and his untitled ninth album (2008). Nevertheless, "It Was Written" has remained as Nas's best-selling album. It Was Written It Was Written is the second studio album by American rapper Nas, released July 2,