In recent years, 'Nudge Units' or 'Behavioral Insights Teams' have been created in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, and other nations. All over the world, public officials are using the behavioral sciences to protect the environment, promote employment and economic growth, reduce poverty, and increase national security. In this book, Cass R. Sunstein, the eminent legal scholar and best-selling co-author of Nudge (2008), breaks new ground with a deep yet highly readable investigation into the ethical issues surrounding nudges, choice architecture, and mandates, addressing such...

Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and illustrates his theory with wide-ranging examples, including that of state regulation of economic activity.

Roger Koppl develops a theory of experts and expert failure, and illustrates his theory with wide-ranging examples, including that of state regulation of economic activity.

Zhang argues that property institutions in pre-industrial China and England were a cause of China's lagging development in pre-industrial times.

Munger predicts that smartphones will allow the 'transactions cost economy' to commodify excess capacity, promoting sharing instead of owning.m

Explains why government policies favor elites over the masses, building on well-established theories from the social sciences.

Explains why government policies favor elites over the masses, building on well-established theories from the social sciences.

Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life.

Articulates Adam Smith's model of human sociality, illustrated in experimental economic games that relate easily to business and everyday life.

Presents a fresh conceptualization of self-governance as a response to the cutting-edge challenges of populism, paternalism and authoritarianism.