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FOLLOWING UP ON MY EARLIER CASS SUNSTEIN POST, I actually took a look at his book, Nudge, and it tur?

By Glenn Reynolds

FOLLOWING UP ON MY EARLIER CASS SUNSTEIN POST, I actually took a look at his book, Nudge, and it turns out he doesn’t really call for a “presumed consent” system of organ donation. (This is at Kindle Location 2130, which seems to correspond to about 182 in the printed book, which I don’t have in front of me; you can use the “search inside the book” feature on Amazon to get close). While it’s fair to say that Sunstein and his coauthor Thaler see a lot of advantages in presumed consent, they actually come out in favor of “mandated choice” — that is, requiring people to check off yes-or-no on organ donation. The real problem is procrastination, and when forced to make a decision people usually decide to donate; Sunstein and Thaler favor that solution. This is even farther from the Monty Python scenario.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on September 08, 2009 (boomark / email).