No 2 to No 10: taking MINDSPACE to Downing Street
The Behavioural Insight Team – or ‘nudge’ unit, as Ministers call it – is about applying behavioural economics and social psychology to policy in a systematic way. In the words of the coalition...
View ArticleGetting into the policy MINDSPACE
Since the Institute published its MINDSPACE report in March, there has been an explosion of interest and activity around behavioural economics. Most notably, my co-author David Halpern now heads up a...
View ArticleGuest blog: Accountability under the spotlight
One permanent secretary said “appearing before the PAC doesn’t change the price of fish”. Officials at HMRC and the Care Quality Commission may take a different view but it remains a fair question....
View ArticleMoneyball regulation
For those unfamiliar with the book or film, Moneyball author Michael Lewis celebrates the success of a baseball manager, Billy Beane, who works with a statistics-obsessed colleague to transform the...
View ArticleMINDSPACE grows up – behavioural economics in government
The report was originally commissioned by the last Labour government which hasn’t stopped a few members of the current opposition expressing degrees of scepticism about the way in which this government...
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