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I have to take issue with Gabriel’s criticism here. My comments below:
No Respect for Oversellers

I have no respect for people who grossly oversell their research. Take, for example, Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Economic policy for humans
In the past 20 years, there has been a growing interest in cutting-edge research that has come [...]

The subject has come up before. It gives me some pause, but on the whole, I agree that having sane defaults is just, well, sane. Levitt seems to think so as well:
Nudge

 
I am not a huge fan of what people call “behavioral economics,” which is a subfield of economics that expands the standard economic models [...]

I certainly agree this is a good idea. It is a real world application of libertarian paternalism, which seems to garner some rather absurd objections. I wonder how much my comfort with the idea of a sane default with easy overriding comes from my computer background. However, I don’t believe the idea is completely original. [...]

This is ridiculous. I’m sure there are objections to the whole Sunstein “Nudge” proposition. If this is the best a seasoned scholar can do, we may be looking at the next revolution in political theory. No, I do not believe this to be the case. That is just how disappointed I am by the quality [...]