Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
This book was written shortly before Barack Obama’s election as U.S. President. Notably, that time was also just before the Great Recession. In that light, this book seems to suggest an ending to the deep conflicts between the world-views of conservative and liberal Baby Boomers and an opening to some sort of resolution of their tensions. It attempts to paint a middle way between economic conservatives (libertarians) and economic liberals (paternalists), a way called “libertarian…