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Given the growing popularity of behavioral economics as a means to influence the decisions that individuals make, and the increasing use of choice architecture in public policy, this book offers a critical analysis of the feasibility and limitations of this approach to public policy.
List of contents
Introduction by Rosemarie Fike, Stefanie Haeffele, and Arielle John
Chapter 1: Irrationality is not Unreasonable: Behavioral Economics, Rationality, and Implications for Public Policy by Mario J. Rizzo
Chapter 2: What Is a Nudge? by Jeffrey Bristol
Chapter 3: Why Nudges Should Be Local and Decentralized by Katarina Hall
Chapter 4: Incentivized Migration in Colonial Contexts: The Challenge of Asymmetric Information in Public Policy Nudges by Oliver McPherson-Smith
Chapter 5: Nudge, Nations, and Cultural Change: The Process of Identity Formation in Singapore by Erin Dunne
Chapter 6: Nudging Lobbyists to Register with Online Registration and Grace Periods by James M. Strickland
Chapter 7: Nudging Choices in Education Policy by Shannon Lee
Chapter 8: Public Policy, the Environment, and the Use of Green Nudges by Cynthia Boruchowicz
Chapter 9: The Paradoxes of the Privacy Paradox by Will Rinehart
Chapter 10: Nudging, Trust, and the "Sharing Economy" in Latin America by Luis H. Lozano-Paredes
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Edited by Rosemarie Fike; Stefanie Haeffele and Arielle John
Summary
Given the growing popularity of behavioral economics as a means to influence the decisions that individuals make, and the increasing use of choice architecture in public policy, this book offers a critical analysis of the feasibility and limitations of this approach to public policy.
