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

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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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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