Nudges, shoves, regulations and designs: debate in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Do "nudges" provide low cost solutions to big economic problems? Are they crowding out more effective, but harder or more expensive approaches?

The latest volume of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Volume 46 - 2023, (a journal optimized to achieve impact factor, which counts references to previously published articles) contains 34 responses to the (previously published) target article*

The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray

• Nick Chater, George Loewenstein
• Published online  05 September 2022, e147

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Here are two of the responses that might be of most direct interest to regular readers of this blog:

• Behavioral market design

• Axel Ockenfels

• Behavioral mechanism design

• Samuel Bowles

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The issue includes two separate responses by the authors of Nudge:

Select Nudging is being framed

• Nudging is being framed

• Richard H. Thaler
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• Conspiracy theory

• Cass R. Sunstein

 

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And here's a reply to all the commentary by the authors of the target article:

• Where next for behavioral public policy?

• Nick Chater, George Loewenstein
• "Academic papers are rarely born out of personal struggles. Our target article was."
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*Earlier post:

Thursday, June 16, 2022

Behavioral economics and market design are quite different -- Nick Chater and George Loewenstein reflect