"Nudge" Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change
If Books Could Kill
Michael Hobbes & Peter Shamshiri
4.6 • 8.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In 2008, an economist and a law professor proposed a radical new approach to politics: Telling people not to do bad stuff.
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- Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics
- From mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theory
- The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains
- Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy
- Behavioral Winter
- Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?
- The Origins of Anti-Litter Campaigns
- Do Normative Appeals Affect Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in Minnesota
- Opt-out legislations: the mysterious viability of the false
- Opt-out policies capacity to increase organ donors is limited
- Assessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-Out
- What Counts as a Nudge?
- Preventing Secondary Pregnancy In Adolescents: A Model Program
- The Effect of Monetary Incentives and Peer Support Groups on Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies A Randomized Trial of the Dollar-a-Day Program
- The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray
- Can behavioural economics make us healthier?
- On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism
Thanks to Mindseye for our theme song!
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| 0:00.0 | Wait, do I say first or do you say first? |
| 0:01.4 | Uh, you say first. |
| 0:02.2 | I was about to say Michael, huh? |
| 0:03.7 | Shit. |
| 0:04.8 | Great start. |
| 0:05.6 | Uh, Peter. |
| 0:07.0 | Michael. |
| 0:07.5 | What do you know about a book called Nudge? |
| 0:10.0 | Is it about how whenever I see Cass Sunstein's name, |
| 0:12.5 | I want to nudge myself off a cliff? |
| 0:14.4 | So as we were workshopping your zinger, I was surprised to learn that you don't know anything about this book, Peter. |
| 0:34.8 | Yeah, this one just sort of like, |
| 0:36.3 | learned together with all the other verb books, you know? |
| 0:39.9 | Like, remember that? |
| 0:40.8 | We had like, blink and then there's Nudge. |
| 0:42.9 | Every book for a few years was just a verb. |
| 0:45.7 | It's like, honk, how to let the guy in front of you know that you want them to go faster. |
| 0:50.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.0 | I don't understand what this era of books was. |
| 0:53.4 | Um, and I was surprised that we were getting so many requests for this book, |
| 0:57.9 | because I had only really vaguely heard of it. |
| 1:00.5 | I don't know anything about it. |
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