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9. All You Need Is Nudge

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Organ Donors - What's the Crucial Mistake in Opting Out?

If the default is to agree to be an organ doner, meaning you have to go out of your way toopt out, then hardly anybody ops out. And this is true, say, in austria, whereas if you have to do something to become a donor, as you have toDo in the united states. So wol, that's a huge effect. Right? Then we started reading the literature. And here's the crucial mistake that people have made in thinking about this problem. If having failed to opt out meant that, should you have a fatal automobile crash, that your organs will be automatically harvested, then that would be a very attractive policy setting. Aside for the moment

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