Obama’s ‘invisible hand’ talks ‘regulatory moneyball’ and the potential of policy based on data-driven, cost-benefit analysis
Tag Archives: behavioural economics
United Kingdom tests behavioural economics on taxpayers
How David Cameron’s plan to ‘nudge’ could save billions
How the government wants to trick us into saving more
Never mind the hypothetical cuts to OAS, Ottawa’s got some actual pension measures before Parliament
Status quo sells
Trying to untangle last night’s debate, and get set for tonight’s, my mind kept drifting back to a New Yorker story from last winter, which reviewed findings from new books on behavioural economics. The core idea was that consumers, acting on scant information and irrational biases, will make predictably irrational decisions about how much stuff if worth.