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"Nudge" Part 1: A Simple Solution For Littering, Organ Donations and Climate Change

If Books Could Kill

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The Problem With Nudging

There's a problem with these concepts where like, if you zoom out enough, they're correct, but not very useful. You can't spin that into something that can solve climate change. But this also speaks to what I find so frustrating about the quote-unquote debate over the book when it first came out. It was presented to the public as a left versus right nudging versus totalitarianism debate. They sort of missed what I believe to be the much better critique.

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