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Books like Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein is about choice architecture, behavioral economics, decision-making. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
Read the summary → - Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Robert B. Cialdini · Psychology
Influence is Robert Cialdini's account of why people say yes, and how that agreement is manufactured.
Read the summary → - Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck · Psychology
Carol Dweck's central claim is simple but far-reaching: people hold one of two basic beliefs about their own abilities.
Read the summary → - Freakonomics
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner · Economics
Freakonomics is economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner's argument that economics — properly understood as the study of incentives — can explain things that look, on the surface, like they have nothing to do with money.
Read the summary → - Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Annie Duke · Psychology
Thinking in Bets is Annie Duke's argument that most decisions in life share a fundamental feature with poker hands: you're choosing under uncertainty, with incomplete information, and luck will affect the outcome regardless of how well you reasoned.
Read the summary → - 100 to 1 in the Stock Market
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Thomas Phelps · Economics
100 to 1 in the Stock Market, published in 1972 by Thomas Phelps, is a study of the conditions under which stocks return one hundred times an investor's original investment — and an argument that such stocks are more common and more identifiable in advance than most investors believe.
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