"Nudge" Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change

If Books Could Kill

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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  • Mike's other podcast, Maintenance Phase

Sources:

  • Mike's Maintenance Phase episode on the godfather of the "cafeteria nudge"
  • 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

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