The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Byadmin November 7, 2011

See some coverage in Forbes on a debate I participated in at a recent meeting, discussing when decisions are really decisions and when nudges are really shoves.
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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Has The "Nudge" Meme Gotten Out of Control?
Byadmin January 12, 2015

A tweet recently came across my feed that captures a problem with the popularity of the nudge meme. The meme took off with the justifiable popularity of Thaler and Sunstein’s eponymous book, in which they promote the idea of influencing people to behave in their own best interests in situations where unconscious and even irrational…

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Market rationality and hormonal logic
Byadmin April 9, 2009

Studying economics in college at the dawn of the Reagan presidency, I learned about the wonders of free-markets. The invisible hand of the market, I read, guarantees that thousands upon thousands of people–each with unique desires, abilities and values–mesh together, thereby able to achieve the balance of work and leisure, and of material and spiritual…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Designing a Better Restaurant Menu
Byadmin September 18, 2014

My friend and colleague Brian Wansink, from Cornell University, worked with some colleagues to design a preliminary restaurant menu, that maximizes the odds the people will order healthy foods. Trick number one: don’t call them “healthy” foods. Here is an image of that menu, reproduced in the Atlantic. This is a great example of how…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Colon Cancer Screening Controversy. Here's What All The Debate Is About.
Byadmin January 31, 2019

Here’s what most medical experts agree on: People 50 and older should be screened for colon cancer. Here’s what is more controversial: Whether that screening should start, routinely, at age 45. Recently, the American Cancer Society (ACS) recommended that colon cancer screenings start at age 45. Their recommendation was based in large part on an uptick…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

Behavioral Economics in the Bathroom?
Byadmin March 1, 2013

One of the dangers of studying behavioral economics and psychology is that the ideas follow you around pretty much everywhere you go. I was reminded of that when some of my students came back from a mid-class bathroom break to tell me they thought the toilet levers were not well designed, environmentally speaking. At Duke,…

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Behavioral Economics and Public Policy

This Is Not the Time to Worry About Paying for the Medical Care You Need
Bypeter April 6, 2020April 6, 2020

Here is a nice article by Dennis Thompson at HealthDay about the challenges people are going to face paying for medical care, especially if they’ve lost or been laid off from their jobs. I chime in at the end URGING people not to worry about money right now if they are sick. Get the care…

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The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions

Has The "Nudge" Meme Gotten Out of Control?

Market rationality and hormonal logic

Designing a Better Restaurant Menu

Colon Cancer Screening Controversy. Here's What All The Debate Is About.

Behavioral Economics in the Bathroom?

This Is Not the Time to Worry About Paying for the Medical Care You Need

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