Rezension: Nudge ist der kleine "Schubser", eine Mischung aus Hilfestellung und Manipulation, mit dem "Entscheidungsarchitekten" in Firmen, Institutionen und Regierungen das Verhalten der Menschen zu deren Nutzen beeinflussen können. Die Autoren (Thaler ist Ökonom, Sunstein Jurist und Berater...

Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In one of its senses, it is a policy for redirecting an agent's choices by only slightly altering his choice conditions, in another sense, it is concerned with bounded rationality...

Social norms have been used to nudge people toward specified outcomes in various domains. But can people be nudged to support, or to reject, proposed government policies? How do people's views change when they learn that the majority approves of a particular policy, or that the majority opposes...