Since the publication of Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein (2008) behavioural public policies and nudge units have been widely adopted right across the world, which has resulted in many improvements to the delivery of public policies, such as better tax collection, increased access of young people to...

Successful responses to the coronavirus pandemic require those without COVID-19 and asymptomatic individuals to comply with a range of government guidelines. As nudges have been widely found to be effective at increasing compliance to prosocial behaviours in many contexts, how good are they for...

Promoting agency – people’s ability to form intentions and to act on them freely – must become a primary objective for behavioural public policy (BPP). Contemporary BPPs do not pursue this objective, which is problematic for many reasons. From an ethical perspective, goals like personal...