Nudge: the dangers

Posted by on Aug 16, 2010 in behaviour change, Books, Current Affairs | No Comments

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. [Nudging aka] "Libertarian paternalism" bears the same theological relationship to Friedmanite economics…as intelligent design does to creationism. It strips out the demonstrably false aspects of the doctrine and gives […]