Riccardo Viale

Nudging (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

How "nudges" by government can empower citizens without manipulating their preferences or exploiting their biases. We're all familiar with the idea of "nudging"-using behavioral mechanisms to encourage people to make certain choices-popularized by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in their bestselling 2008 book Nudge. This approach, also known as "libertarian paternalism," goes beyond typical programs that simply provide information and incentives; nudges can range from automatic enrollment in a pension plan to flu-shot scheduling. In Nudging, Riccardo Viale explores the evolution of nudging and proposes new approaches that would empower citizens without manipulating them paternalistically. He shows that we can use the tools of the behavioral sciences without abandoning the principle of conscious decision-making. Viale discusses the work of Herbert Simon, Gerd Gigerenzer, Daniel Kahneman, and Amos Tversky that laid the foundation of behavioral economics, describes how policy makers have sought to help people avoid bad decisions, offers examples of effective nudging, and considers how to nudge the nudgers. How can we tell good nudges from bad nudges? Viale explains that good nudges help us avoid bias and encourage deliberate decision making; bad nudges, on the other hand, use bias to nudge people unconsciously into unintentional behaviors. Bad nudges attempt to compel decisions based on economic rationality. Good nudges encourage decisions based on a pragmatic, adaptive, ecological kind of rationality. Policy makers should take note.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780262371582
• Artikelnr.: 63254962

Autorenporträt

Riccardo Viale is Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Milano Bicocca, where he is President of BIB-Behavioral Insights Bicocca. He is also Professor of Behavioral Economics at the School of Government and the School of European Public Economics of LUISS, Rome, and Founder and Secretary General of the Herbert Simon Society. He is the author of Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution (with Herbert Simon, Massimo Egidi, and Robin Marris) and other books.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface ix
1 Behavior and Power 1
2 How to Influence Human Behavior 15
3 Cognitive Illusions 27
4 Policy Makers as Architects of Choice 43
5 Behavioral Change in Policy Making 73
6 Behavioral Bureaucracy 87
7 Is Nudging Libertarian? 99
8 Irrational or Adaptive? 113
9 Adaptive Nudging: BRANs and Boosts 129
10 Self-Nudging 143
Conclusion: "Nudgood" or "Nudgevil"? 157
Notes 165
Bibliography 207
Author Index 231
Subject Index 233