How Behavioral Economics Trims Its Sails and Why

By Ryan Bubb, R. Pildes. 2014

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A worldwide consensus on nudging? Not quite, but almost (2018, unknown): “Insofar as they steer people in certain directions without imposing significant costs, tools of this kind are called “nudges”; there is a lively and continuing debate about their use (Bubb & Pildes 2014; Conley 2012; Halpern 2015).”
Putting nudges in perspective (2017, background): “…may have had the unintended effect of encouraging policy makers to channel behavioural economics into a narrower range of policy problems than it has the potential to address, and focus on a narrower range of policy solutions than it has the potential to provide (see also Bubb & Pildes, 2014).”