Human Agency and Behavioral Economics
Nudging Fast and Slow
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Constitutionalism, prosperity, democracy: Transition in Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is now undergoing three distinct transitions: to markets, to democracy, and to constitutionalism. Under current conditions, the transition to constitutionalism is a logical precondition for the ...
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The Equal Chance To Have One's Vote Count
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Terrorism and Probability Neglect
When strong emotions are involved, people tend to focus on the badness of the outcome, rather than on the probability that the outcome will occur. The resulting “probability neglect” helps to explain excessive...
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Terrorism and Probability Neglect
When strong emotions are involved, people tend to focus on the badness of the outcome, rather than on the probability that the outcome will occur. The resulting “probability neglect” helps to explain excessive...
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Cognitive Psychology of Moral Intuitions
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The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost-Benefit Analysis, and Climate Change
Because risks are on all sides of social situations, it is not possible to be “precautionary” in general. The availability heuristic ensures that some risks stand out as particularly salient, whatever their ac...
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Neither Hayek nor Habermas
The rise of the blogosphere raises important questions about the elicitation and aggregation of information, and about democracy itself. Do blogs allow people to check information and correct errors? Can we u...
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Moral Heuristics and Risk
Much of everyday morality consists of simple, highly intuitive rules that generally make sense but that fail in certain cases. In this essay I will identify a set of heuristics that now influence factual and m...
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Overreaction to Fearsome Risks
When risks threaten, cognitive mechanisms bias people toward action or inaction. Fearsome risks are highly available. The availability bias tells us that this leads people to overestimate their frequency. Ther...
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Redesigning Cockpits
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Nudging: A Very Short Guide
This brief essay offers a general introduction to the idea of nudging, along with a list of 10 of the most important “nudges.” It also provides a short discussion of the question whether to create some kind of...
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Nudges Do Not Undermine Human Agency
Some people believe that nudges undermine human agency, but with appropriate nudges, neither agency nor consumer freedom is at risk. On the contrary, nudges can promote both goals. In some contexts, they are i...
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Nudges, Agency, and Abstraction: A Reply to Critics
This essay has three general themes. The first involves the claim that nudging threatens human agency. My basic response is that human agency is fully retained (because nudges do not compromise freedom of choi...
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Behaviorally Green: Why, Which and When Defaults Can Help
Careful attention to ‘choice architecture’ promises to open up new possibilities for environmental protection—possibilities that may be more effective than the standard tools of economic incentives, mandates, ...
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How to Choose
How does one choose nudges? One answer points to social : Which kind of nudge increases it? That question requires an inquiry into costs and benefits. Often educative have low costs and high benefits, b...
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Introduction: Agency and Control
For most people, control has some intrinsic value; people care about maintaining it and will pay something to do so. Whenever a private or public institution blocks choices or interferes with agency, some peop...
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People Prefer Educative Nudges (Kind Of)
There is a large and insufficiently explored difference between educative or , which target or benefit from automatic processing, and noneducative or System 2 nudges, which target or benefit from deliberati...
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“What Route Would You Like Me To Take?” Paternalists Who Force Choices
It can be paternalistic to force people to choose. Although many people insist on drawing a bright line between and paternalism, that line is often illusory. Calling for active choosing is a form if peop...
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Verhaltensbasierte Regulierung (Nudging)
Die Verbraucherpolitik verfügt über ein breites Instrumentarium, bestehend aus weichen Instrumenten wie Information und Beratung, Bildung und Befähigung, Organisation und Ermächtigung sowie harten Instrumenten...
