Tag: nudge

12 Apr 2008

Levitt Seems to Endorse Libertarian Paternalism

The subject has come up before. It gives me some pause, but on the whole, I agree that having sane defaults is just, well, sane. Levitt seems to think so as well:
Nudge

 
I am not a huge fan of what people call “behavioral economics,” which is a subfield of economics that expands the standard economic models [...]