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Choosing Not to Choose
Book

Choosing Not to Choose

Understanding the Value of Choice

Oxford UP, 2015 подробнее...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Harvard professor, frequent author and legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein addresses choice, the topic of some of his previous books, including Republic.com and Nudge. He focuses on the architecture of choosing by addressing often-neglected aspects of choice, like the power of “default choices.” His prose and reasoning are exceptionally lucid. Sunstein discusses academic studies, theoretical concepts, practical examples and real-world applications. The result, despite a few repeating loops, provides an essential overview for anyone interested in decision making, as well as public policy, clear thinking and how people think. getAbstract recommends Sunstein’s rigor and imagination to those readers, and to leaders, marketers and social scientists.

Take-Aways

  • Choice is a blessing and a curse. Sometimes it is better not to choose.
  • Being able to choose is part of being free and financially secure; the poor lack the time, attention and funds to exercise their choices.
  • “Choice architects” use “choice architecture” to shape how, if, when and where you choose.

About the Author

Harvard professor Cass R. Sunstein – author of Going to Extremes, Simpler, Nudge and other books – ran the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs from 2009 to 2012.


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    L. W. 9 years ago
    Very repetitive and boring- if the book is as repetitive as the abstract, it is a waste of time 
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    R. Y. 9 years ago
    Interesting
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    T. C. 9 years ago
    Interesting article, I was familiar with the default, or making a choice by not choosing but the article went deeper into the psychology of choosing.