Is There a Different Approach to Vaccine Hesitancy?

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Like climate change, how would nudge help us on vaccine hesitancy? i think certainly in the us. We were, we went through three stages. The interesting thing is, we're now entering stage four with boosters. So i'm thrice vaccinated now. But if we're going to end up asking or recommending that everybody get a third vaccine, we'll be back in the world where nudging is going to be a big help. That won't work for the anti vaxers.

Since the original publication of Nudge more than a decade ago, the word that served as the title of the ground-breaking book has entered the vocabulary of businesspeople, policy makers, economists, engaged citizens and consumers everywhere. It has given rise to more than 400 nudge units in governments around the world and has influenced countless groups of behavioural scientists in every part of the economy. In October 2021 Richard Thaler, one of the co-authors of the book and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for economics, came to Intelligence Squared to talk with journalist and author Kamal Ahmed about Nudge: The Final Edition, a cover-to-cover refresh of the original publication.

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