The placementf of the articles may matter, right? That that's an important thing to start with. And in choices that you talk about, order matters,. how the questions framed, the choices framed, matters. The status quo matters. But i think it woul be hard pressed to really defend that. Well, she could kind of move him around sotome. She could say that. You can make a very principaled argument that she should choose an order at random. I'm just saying that she has to put them in some order.
Richard Thaler of the U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business defends the idea of libertarian paternalism--how government might use the insights of behavioral economics to help citizens make better choices. Host Russ Roberts accepts the premise that individuals make imperfect choices but challenges Thaler on the likelihood that government, in practice, will improve matters. Along the way they discuss the design of Sweden's social security system, organ donations and whether professors at Cornell University are more or less like you and me.