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Predictions And Nudges: What Behavioral Economics Has To Offer The Humanities, And Vice-Versa, Anne Dailey, Peter Siegelman
Predictions And Nudges: What Behavioral Economics Has To Offer The Humanities, And Vice-Versa, Anne Dailey, Peter Siegelman
Peter Siegelman
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Pp. 304. $26.00. Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. New York: HarperCollins, 2008. Pp. 280. $25.95. The informed law and humanities reader can hardly fail to be aware that the field of economics has undergone a "behavioral revolution" over the past several decades, and that this revolution has spilled over into the legal academy. Open an economics journal these days and you are likely to find any number of articles billing themselves as "behavioral" …