nudge theory

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

by Grace Blakeley  · 11 Mar 2024  · 371pp  · 137,268 words

and Employees,” BBC News, February 5, 2014, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-26030205. 109. Nick Barrett, “Hostile Environment: The Dark Side of Nudge Theory,” Politics.co.uk, May 1, 2018, https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/05/01/hostile-environment-the-dark-side-of

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-nudge-theory/. 110. Demetrios Matheou, “Surviving the Windrush Scandal,” UNISON, June 6, 2018, https://www.unison.org.uk/news/magazine/2018/06/surviving-windrush-scandal/. 111. Ibid.

100 Years of Identity Crisis: Culture War Over Socialisation

by Frank Furedi  · 6 Sep 2021  · 535pp  · 103,761 words

://diposit.ub.edu/dspace/bitstream/2445/152912/1/TFG_GEI_ROIG_ANNA_JUN19.pdf (accessed 21 March 2021). 765 www.businessballs.com/improving-workplace-performance/nudge-theory/ (accessed 19 March 2021). 766 Bourdieu (2010) p.49.

Radical Uncertainty: Decision-Making for an Unknowable Future

by Mervyn King and John Kay  · 5 Mar 2020  · 807pp  · 154,435 words

; and evolutionary science, 154–5 , 165 ; Kahneman’s dual systems, 170–1 , 172 , 271 ; Kahneman–Tversky experiments, 141–7 , 152 , 215 ; ‘noise’ (randomness), 175–6 ; nudge theory, 148–9 Bentham, Jeremy, 110 Berkshire Hathaway, 153 , 319 , 324 , 325–6 Berlin, Isaiah, 222 Bernoulli, Daniel, 114–16 , 199 Bernoulli, Nicolaus, 199 , 442 Bertrand

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, 170–1 , 172 , 271 ; legal reasoning, 194–5 , 196–8 , 205–7 , 210–14 , 410 , 415 , 416 ; meaning of as contested, 79 , 80 , 136 ; and nudge theory, 148–9 ; optimism and confidence, 167–70 , 330 , 427–8 ; ordinary usage of term, 136–7 ; ‘rational expectations theory, 342–5 , 346–50 ; reasoning as

Gene Eating: The Science of Obesity and the Truth About Dieting

by Giles Yeo  · 3 Jun 2019  · 351pp  · 112,079 words

to be such a powerful influence on so many aspects of human behaviour that Richard Thaler received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for his ‘Nudge’ theory.20 Nudge is based on the simple premise that people, when making decisions quickly (and sometimes even when making decisions with apparent thought), will often

A Pelican Introduction: Basic Income

by Guy Standing  · 3 May 2017  · 307pp  · 82,680 words

paternalistic argument, not one about freedom. But he is not as explicit as the new breed of libertarian paternalists, who lean on ‘behavioural economics’ and ‘nudge theory’ to justify giving a very prominent role to government to steer or nudge people to make ‘the right choices’. They have been highly influential, to

Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America

by Cass R. Sunstein  · 6 Mar 2018  · 434pp  · 117,327 words

1971, 316–17 Normative threat, 179, 180, 181, 185, 186–87, 193–94, 196, 201–6, 215 North Carolina, 152–53 North Korea, viii Nudging (nudge theory), 342–43 Obama, Barack, 1, 5, 6, 7, 75, 122, 129n, 222, 323, 332, 404–5 probabilistic approach of, 351–52 Obamacare, 29–31, 345

The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged

by Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison  · 28 Jan 2019

Sunstein (2009). The Behavioural Insights Team, also known as the Nudge Unit, is an organisation that was set up inside the Cabinet Office to apply nudge theory to UK government policy in many areas, including social mobility. Erickson’s (1996) classic study finds a similar effect in terms of the use of

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17, 109, 132, 211 and sponsorship 110, 115, 118 Norway, class pay gap 47 NS-SEC (National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification) 11, 222, 263–5 nudge theory 307n37 O objectified cultural capital 199 ‘objective merit’ 2, 168, 212, 214, 221 O’Brien, D. 241 ‘occupational effects’ 198–9 ‘old boys’ network’ 17

Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

by Rory Sutherland  · 6 May 2019  · 401pp  · 93,256 words

don’t, and context and framing matter. One of my favourite ever experiments on the perception of price and value came from the father of ‘Nudge Theory’, Richard Thaler. He asked a group of sophisticated wine enthusiasts to imagine that they had bought a bottle of vintage wine (that was now worth

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’, New Scientist (6 September 2012). ‘. . . and more by our perception of it’, ‘The Vodka-Red-Bull Placebo Effect’, Atlantic (8 June 2017). ‘. . . the father of ‘Nudge Theory’, Richard Thaler’ Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (2008). ‘. . . often outdone by the taste of the

Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets

by Brett Scott  · 4 Jul 2022  · 308pp  · 85,850 words

easy access to politicians, high-profile academics and the media. Others, like Richard Thaler – who won the Nobel Prize in economics for his work on nudge theory – publicly praised India’s Modi government for clamping down on cash. These are the people conditioning our views on cash, but they do not represent

Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems

by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski and Adam Stubblefield  · 29 Mar 2020  · 1,380pp  · 190,710 words

://oreil.ly/ZN18B. 7 This topic is closely related to nudging, a method of changing behavior by subtly encouraging people to do the right thing. Nudge theory was developed by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, who were awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics for their contribution to behavioral economics. For more information

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics

by Robert Skidelsky  · 13 Nov 2018

The Startup Wife

by Tahmima Anam  · 2 Jun 2021  · 297pp  · 83,528 words

Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class

by Charles Murray  · 28 Jan 2020  · 741pp  · 199,502 words

Bricks & Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

by Tom Wilkinson  · 21 Jul 2014  · 341pp  · 89,986 words