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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by MichaelCollins on Thursday July 28, 2022 @09:52AM (#32264282)
Nudge does seem to imply some degree subtlety. In a colloquial sense, >100% tax rates on cigarettes is more of a shove than a nudge.
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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by throwaway0a5e on Thursday July 28, 2022 @10:35AM (#32264880)
Pretty much every policy stick short of a bullet seems to be sailing under the flag of a nudge these days.
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Re:Evidence for behavioural interventions looks increasingly... by gmac on Friday July 29, 2022 @07:48AM (#32275749)
Absolutely: the definition of a nudge (Thaler and Sunstein’s “libertarian paternalism”) was meant to include that it is cheap and easy to avoid, and therefore makes no difference to the (mythical) fully rational consumer. Taxes or other price interventions absolutely do not qualify.
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