The New York Times reports on an audio nudge to reduce injuries from electric vehicles: Safety experts, worried that hybrids pose a threat if pedestrians, children, and others can’t hear them approaching, want automakers to...
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I recently spent the weekend in California with my wife, sister-in-law, and niece. My in-laws have a Wii gaming console, of which I’ve heard but never played. Suffice it to say that I played more video games during...
The Nudge blog updates readers on a pilot project that seeks to reduce the carbon footprint in the United Kingdom: The residents are asked to make pledges in a face-to-face conversation with one of the canvassers who have been...
Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge, writes an interesting piece about the behavioral economics of organ donation for The New York Times. Research has long shown that opt-in donor registration programs result in low rates of...
In a recent piece in The New York Times, columnist and economics professor Paul Krugman schools us on the limitations of neoclassical economics. It’s a great piece, and one of my favorite bits is his reference to...
The Obama administration is throwing some serious behavioral economics at our country’s savings problems, reports The New York Times. The new initiatives are based on a healthy dose of simplicity and ease of use. Mr. Obama...
Nick de la Mare over at frog design recently underscored the interesting distinction between tools and machines: While tools offer a clear linkage between user and task, the machine offers an advantage in functionality with the...
Conor Clarke of The Atlantic interviews Nobel laureate Ken Arrow and touches briefly on behavioral economics: This time around it seems like you hear a lot of dissatisfaction with the rational expectations model. What do you...
One potential element of healthcare reform is the provision of insurance exchanges, an arrangement designed to allow small businesses and individuals access to more affordable health insurance. A question arises, however, as to...
At the core of Express Scripts’ Consumerology products and services is something we call the healthcare consumerism spectrum. This is our visual reminder that consumerism in healthcare is much broader than financial...
