Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular?

Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? by colechristensen on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @04:49PM (#18188742)

What we have are complex problems instead of simple ones.

For example, slavery up to 150 years ago vs. segregation up to 50 years ago vs. subtle often unconscious racism today.+ Fighting to abolish slavery is a lot simpler than fighting for racial equality. It is not that there are not problems, but there are not so many obvious problems with obvious solutions today.

+ I'm trying to make a broad point here not perfectly depict the history of racism in America, forgive any unjust implications

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Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? by joe_the_user on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:05PM (#18189343)

Stopping global warming seems very simple - just limit C02 production. The main thing is institutions are complex and so even simple change requires complex processes.

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Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? by colechristensen on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:30PM (#18189516)

I would strongly disagree that any plan to limit CO2 production would be simple.

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Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? by everdrive on Thursday October 11, 2018 @07:46AM (#18192657)

The good news here is we're all going to find out very soon just how hard it might be.

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Re:Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? by sjg007 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @11:29PM (#18190807)

Simplest are carbon credits.

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