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Thaler on the Power of Nudge for Good or Bad

Geoff Riley

2nd November 2015

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The incomparable Professor Richard Thaler is worried that "many private sector businesses are nudging purely for their own profit and not in customers’ best interests." They are violating one or more of his three stipulations for a fair and effective nudge namely:

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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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