Hertwig, Ralph; Ryall, Michael D. - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 130 (2020) 629, pp. 1384-1415
Thaler and Sunstein (2008) advance the concept of ‘nudge’ policies—non-regulatory and non-fiscal mechanisms designed to enlist people's cognitive biases or motivational deficits so as to guide their behaviour in a desired direction. A core assumption of this approach is that policymakers...