Handbook of Nudges and Society

I attended the launch on December 5th of the "Research Handbook of Nudges and Society" edited by Lucia Reisch and Cass Sunstein that took place in the Judge School at Cambridge in conjunction with the El-Erian Institute of Behavioural Economics. The table of contents is below and it represents a strong survey of current debates and state-of-the-art of the integration of behaviorally informed approaches into regulation and public policy. The abstract of my chapter with Atrina Oraee and Jet Sanders below. 

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Nudges and Society 1

Cass R. Sunstein and Lucia A. Reisch

PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Libertarian paternalism 10
Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
2 Nudgeability and beyond: affording people with opportunities to make the right choice 17
Denise De Ridder
3 Bias, noise and nudges 34
Olivier Sibony
4 Social norm nudging for sustainable consumption 56
John Thøgersen
5 Welfare now 70
Cass R. Sunstein

PART II APPLICATIONS
6 Shifting online incentive structures to reduce polarization and the spread of misinformation 91
Steve Rathje and Sander van der Linden
7 Animal protection and information avoidance 109
Richard Völker and Sven Grüner
8 Behavioural interventions to improve financial wellbeing: a focus on budgeting 129
Dilip Soman and Yuna Choe
9 Nudging employees for corporate sustainability: a systematic evidence map 152
Leonie Decrinis and Lucia A. Reisch
10 Smart disclosure: promise and perils 174
Oren Bar-Gill

PART III METHODS AND RESEARCH CHALLENGES
11 Nudges versus financial incentives 189
W. Kip Viscusi
12 Priceless behaviours: behavioural implications, unintended consequences and spillover effects of pricing policies 209
Mario Mazzocchi and Beatrice Biondi

PART IV POLICYMAKING
13 Nudge+: putting citizens at the heart of behavioural public policy 227
Sanchayan Banerjee and Peter John
14 Addressing inequalities with behavioral science: a taxonomy of positive deviance 242
Kai Ruggeri and Valentina Cafarelli
15 Self-nudging and the citizen choice architect 263
Samuli Reijula and Ralph Hertwig

PART V BATTLEFIELDS
16 Behavioural science: ethics, expertise and systemic risk 292
Liam Delaney, Atrina Oraee and Jet Sanders
17 The use and misuse of behavioural science in the age of COVID-19 308
Adam Oliver
18 Eight misconceptions about nudges 319
Cass R. Sunstein

Index 329