And no, banning things isn't 'lazy', its 'committed'.
Markets are often the right solution, but in many case its not about manipulating marginal prices, its about making a clear statement.
Our towns will be better, our collective living standard will go up without ads. There is not clear way how we can get a market to arbitrate this.
> "Nudge" by Richard Thaler.
That book is way, way over-rated and also just completely wrong and informed at times. Even the best example of 'Nudge' about opt-out organ donor barley hold up in the real world.
And no, banning things isn't 'lazy', its 'committed'.
Markets are often the right solution, but in many case its not about manipulating marginal prices, its about making a clear statement.
Our towns will be better, our collective living standard will go up without ads. There is not clear way how we can get a market to arbitrate this.
> "Nudge" by Richard Thaler.
That book is way, way over-rated and also just completely wrong and informed at times. Even the best example of 'Nudge' about opt-out organ donor barley hold up in the real world.
This podcast about the book is pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjArvN9cfgE
There is a Part 2 that goes into 'Nudge' being used by governments around the world.
You can find the show-notes with lots of sources they used here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/IfBooksCouldKill/comments/137g83j/i...