What I Love About Nudge

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i love that in senis aren't just monetary incentivs. I think a lot of people use armantraof incentives manner in a straw man version. It's actually true that there are social incentives, and then there's a kind of moral incentives. And so givenaa, those three things, financial, moral and social incentives essentially cover more or less the universe of things that lead people who are paying attention to do the things they do.

Author and economist Steven Levitt is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and host of the podcast "People I (Mostly) Admire." He is best known as the co-author, with Stephen Dubner, of Freakonomics. The book, published in 2005, became a phenomenon, selling more than 5 million copies in 40 languages. Levitt talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the book's surprising success, the controversy it generated, and how it shaped his career. Levitt says, for him, "economics is about going into the world and finding puzzles and thinking about how understanding incentives or markets might help us get a better grasp of what's really going on."