"Nudge" Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change

In 2008, an economist and a law professor proposed a radical new approach to politics: Telling people not to do bad stuff.

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Sources:
• Mike's Maintenance Phase episode on the godfather of the "cafeteria nudge" (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-lunches-p…)
• Nudge: Concept, Effectiveness, and Ethics (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01973533.2017.…)
• From mechanism to virtue: Evaluating Nudge theory (journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135638901…)
• The effectiveness of nudging: A meta-analysis of choice architecture interventions across behavioral domains (pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2107346118)
• Why the Most Important Idea in Behavioral Decision-Making Is a Fallacy (blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/why-…)
• Behavioral Winter (psyarxiv.com/jn7kf)
• Why Is Behavioral Economics So Popular? (nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/sunday/behavior…)
• The Origins of Anti-Litter Campaigns (motherjones.com/politics/2006/05/origins-anti-…)
• Do Normative Appeals Affect Tax Compliance? Evidence from a Controlled Experiment in Minnesota (journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.17310/ntj.20…)
• Opt-out legislations: the mysterious viability of the false (sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S008…)
• Opt-out policies capacity to increase organ donors is limited (medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.27.2126203…)
• Assessing Global Organ Donation Policies: Opt-In vs Opt-Out (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8128443)
• What Counts as a Nudge? (tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15265161.2011.…)
• Preventing Secondary Pregnancy In Adolescents: A Model Program (core.ac.uk/download/pdf/149229771.pdf)
• The Effect of Monetary Incentives and Peer Support Groups on Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies A Randomized Trial of the Dollar-a-Day Program (jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract…)
• The i-frame and the s-frame: How focusing on individual-level solutions has led behavioral public policy astray (deliverypdf.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=117092085…)
• Can behavioural economics make us healthier? (blog.panicola.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/C…)
• On the Supposed Evidence for Libertarian Paternalism (link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13164-015-0…)
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