IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/paichp/978-3-319-55807-3_4.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

How to Choose

In: Human Agency and Behavioral Economics

Author

Listed:
  • Cass R. Sunstein

    (Harvard University)

Abstract

How does one choose between educativeEducative nudges and noneducativeNoneducative nudges nudges? One answer points to social welfareWelfare : Which kind of nudge increases it? That question requires an inquiry into costs and benefits. Often educative nudgesNudge have low costs and high benefits, but sometimes they accomplish little, for example where people lack the motivation or the capacity to learn. Noneducative nudges can be simpler and more automatic. If the concern is autonomyAutonomy or dignityDignity , educative nudgesNudge have some advantages, because they equip people to make their own choices. But educative nudges can also sap autonomyAutonomy , at least where they intrude on people’s limited “bandwidth,” andBandwidth force them to devote their time and attention to issues on which they prefer not to focus.

Suggested Citation

  • Cass R. Sunstein, 2017. "How to Choose," Palgrave Advances in Behavioral Economics, in: Human Agency and Behavioral Economics, chapter 0, pages 73-85, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:paichp:978-3-319-55807-3_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55807-3_4
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:paichp:978-3-319-55807-3_4. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.