Health

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

WTTW News | May 26, 2009, 7:00 pm

University of Chicago professor and author Richard Thaler tells us how policy makers can give people a "nudge" in the right direction. We talk to Thaler as part of our Chicago Matters: Beyond Burnham series.

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