Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new takefrom neither the left nor the righton many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative books to come along in many years. (20080518)

理查德·H·泰勒，芝加哥大學商學院教授，金融與行為經濟學教授，行為決策研究中心主任，美國國民經濟研究局（NBER）主管行為經濟學的研究工作。研究主要集中於心理學、經濟學等交叉學科，被認為是“現代行為經濟學和行為金融學領域的先鋒經濟學傢”。

諾貝爾經濟學奬獲得者丹尼爾·卡尼曼將自己的獲奬歸功於泰勒，認為泰勒是首個提齣將心理學納入經濟學討論中並衍生齣行為經濟學這一學科的學者，他當之無愧是該學科的開創者。