How to Be Happier Than Your Spouse

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Can nudge theory be applied to child rearing or to dealing with a recalcitant partner? Both, please. Richard sogan: You can't be happier than your spouse. Your happiness is equal or less than the happiness of your spouse. If parents don't give kids any chances to fail, then as soon as the kids get out of their hands, they will fail. I think it's all about nudging.

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word that served as the title of the ground-breaking book has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, economists, engaged citizens and consumers everywhere. It has given rise to more than 400 nudge units in governments around the world and has influenced countless groups of behavioural scientists in every part of the economy. In October 2021 Richard Thaler, one of the co-authors of the book and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for economics, came to Intelligence Squared to talk with journalist and author Kamal Ahmed about Nudge: The Final Edition, a cover-to-cover refresh of the original publication.

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