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Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass R Sunstein New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014, 195 pp., € 17,63; Softcover

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Blake Chapman*
Affiliation:
University of Toronto, b.chapman@utoronto.ca
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2014

References

1 Thaler, Richard H and Sunstein, Cass R, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (New York: Penguin Books, 2009).Google Scholar

2 Sunstein, Cass R, Why Nudge? The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014), at p. 16.Google Scholar

3 Ibid at p. 17.

4 Ibid at pp. 18–19.

5 Ibid at p. 18.

6 Ibid at p. 17.

7 Ibid at p. 139.

8 Ibid at p. 69.

9 Ibid at p. 79.

10 Ibid at p. 78.

11 Ibid at p. 21.

12 Ibid at p. 138.

13 Ibid at p. 137.

14 Ibid at p. 21–22.

15 Ibid at p. 134.

16 Ibid at p. 135.