'Nudge' Debate

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Posted on 07 December 2012

Professor Andrew Dobson participated in a debate on behavioural economics - 'Nudge' - at University College, London. Other participants were Dr David Halpern, Head of the No 10 Downing Street Behavioral Insights team, and Baroness Julia Neuberger, who chaired a House of Lords Inquiry into the Nudge theory of human behaviour and its application to policy-making in 2011.

Professor Dobson argued that Nudge is an inappropriate response to large-scale problems such as climate change, and that it underestimates the structural and normative obstacles to lasting and effective change.

He has also visited the Universidad Autonoma (Madrid) and Sciences Po (Lille) in the past two weeks to teach environmental political theory to Masters students.

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