Why Nudge?: The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism

By Cass R. Sunstein. 2014

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Can nudges be transparent and yet effective (2018, neutral): “They have become a popular form of soft regulation in various fields such as health, finance, environmental protection, etc. (Sunstein, 2014a; Alemanno and Sibony, 2015; World Bank, 2015; Lourenco et al., 2016).”
When to consider boosting: some rules for policy-makers (2017, background): “Nudging (or soft paternalism; Sunstein, 2014) is suggested to be less intrusive than mandates and bans because it imposes low costs and permits people to easily reverse the choice, thus maintaining freedom of choice.”
Nudge Versus Boost: How Coherent are Policy and Theory? (2015, methodology): “Enlisting these social factors as drivers of behavior change is, of course, nothing new (see Cialdini 2001); neither is the provision of information (Thaler and Sunstein, pp. 93–94) or warnings (Sunstein 2014, p. 59).”
Unresolved questions in nudging research: Putting the psychology back in nudging (2017, background): “Freedom of choice is one of the key principles in nudging interventions and has been discussed extensively (Bovens, 2009; Hansen & Jespersen, 2013; Sunstein, 2014; Wilkinson, 2013).”
Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics (2017, result): “This is in contrast to a position of Thaler and Sunstein (2008) and Sunstein (2014, 2016c) that nudges differ according to the underlying differences between System 1 and System 2 thought operations.”
Green nudges: Do they work? Are they ethical? (2016, background): “Consider fuel-efficiency: the relevant benefits associated with purchasing fuel-efficient cars apparently lack salience— which calls for labels designed to make information on a car's fuel-efficiency more prominent (Sunstein, 2014a: 65–67, 140–42).”
Public Views on Policies Involving Nudges (2015, background): “The Politics of Libertarian Paternalism, Cass Sunstein (2014) rejects this view.”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “…of behavioural economics to public policy.1 This usage is embodied in the 1 For example, a recent discussion on the ‘ethics of nudging’ (e.g. Sunstein, 2014, 2016) discusses ways that ‘behavioural market failures’ can be avoided both by non-coercive behavioural interventions that do not…”
Nudging and Boosting: Steering or Empowering Good Decisions (2017, background): “…rational people not only lack these heroic qualities, so the nudge approach argues, but they are fallible, inconsistent, ill-informed, unrealistically optimistic, and myopic, and they suffer from inertia and self-control problems (Sunstein, 2014; Thaler & Sunstein, 2008; see also Halpern, 2015).”
The Community of Advantage (2018, background): “Such cases involve what has lately become known as ‘means paternalism’ (Sunstein 2014; Le Grand and New 2015: 27).”
From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and Beyond (2015, background): “This question has motivated legal scholar Cass Sunstein and economist Richard Thaler to propose a set of policies under the umbrella term of Bnudges^ (Sunstein and Thaler 2003; Sunstein 2013; Sunstein 2014; Thaler and Sunstein 2008).”
Exemplars and nudges: Combining two strategies for moral education (2018, neutral): “The main proponent of nudge strategies, Cass Sunstein (2014), has a broad conception of nudging.”