Death, suffering and despair trail in your wake, but you’ve shown us some important things too. 1. The NHS works fabulously when properly funded. 2, Social care in the UK is a disgrace and needs an urgent overhaul. 3. Many private sector jobs are scarily insecure. 4. Poverty and social deprivation kills. 5. Reducing economic… Continue reading Thanks Coronavirus, for the lessons you’ve taught us …
Category: Social Policy
Nudging behaviour is ineffective, naive and unethical
Interventions to ‘nudge’ people into desirable behaviours have become popular with policy-makers internationally, write Nick J Fox and Elise Klein. In the UK, the Behavioural Insights Team – established under former premier David Cameron – are prolific nudgers, designing (amongst many others) inputs to reduce meat consumption, protect police officers from phishing, and reduce the… Continue reading Nudging behaviour is ineffective, naive and unethical