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Nudge - How Small Changes can make a Big Difference

Geoff Riley

12th October 2015

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This is pretty much the full version of the talk given at the RSA in London on the work of the behavioural insights team into how small nudges can change people's behaviour.

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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