Booth Insights in DC: Nudging Now: How Behavioral Economics Explains US Politics

Chicago Booth Insights - Washington, DC
May 18, 2017

Nudging Now: How Behavioral Economics Explains US Politics

Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein has been influencing policymaking since it was published in 2009. Governments in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia have set up behavioral insights teams to examine how to design “choice architecture” that can help people save for retirement, enable them to make better financial decisions, and make government more efficient. 

Join Richard H. Thaler, Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and a pioneer in the field of behavioral economics, for a conversation with New York Times columnist David Leonhardt on what insights behavioral economics can bring to the political and economic challenges facing the United States today.

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