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Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism by Cass R. Sunstein

Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism Cass R. Sunstein ebook
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780300197860
Page: 208

Mar 11, 2014 - Some scholars have suggested that what makes a nudge qua nudge, is that it plays on or utilizes our System 1 thinking. May 13, 2008 - They call this idea “libertarian paternalism.” (“Why not WSJ: We're all familiar with how marketers, advertisers and, especially these days, vote-hungry politicians use framing to influence our choices. In their book, Professor Thaler and Mr. Jul 25, 2011 - Mettler thus proposes abandoning 'nudge' politics in favor of evidence-based policy making that requires policy makers to “reveal” the operation of policies, and hence reveal governance to citizens. She has some strong criticisms of “libertarian paternalism”, though I think she's often unwilling to follow through on those criticisms. , the question in Britain no longer seems to be whether, but how, to nudge. In his most recent book, Why Nudge? Joseph Postell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs. Aug 30, 2013 - I get why politically Thaler wants to distance himself, but he's relying on semantics, not real analysis. Dec 14, 2013 - One morning in late May 2008, 10 copies of a little red book arrived for Rohan Silva in Norman Shaw South, the Westminster wing where the leader of the political opposition -- at the time, the Conservatives -- is traditionally housed. In short, behavioral economics has nothing by which to determine what an individual's true preferences ought to be, and so there is nothing that helps us determine in what direction to nudge people. In any event, one goal of my paper is But inasmuch as nudges' normative justification is libertarian paternalism, I'm not sure we should be determining whether something counts as a nudge from the perspective of the regulator; rather, it seems to me we should be focusing on interference with liberty from the perspective of the regulated. This is a theory of politics then, under which the key problem is that . Aug 16, 2010 - pic c/o Monty Python Fan page Nice piece here by Peter Wilby about the fashionability of Thaler and Sunstein's book with centre-right politicians and policy wonks. Feb 14, 2012 - The result is “libertarian paternalism,” which relies on enlightened experts to frame choices for us so that our preferences align with what we ought to prefer.