Events
Friday exchange programme
Each Friday, ippr welcomes a prominent progressive thinker to join us for a Friday Exchange session. This generally involves a presentation from our guest followed by a question and answers session. Friday Exchange takes place at our offices in London on Friday lunchtimes between 1pm and 2pm. Please contact the events team on events@ippr.org for more information.
Friday exchanges are open to friends of ippr and invitees only. For information on becoming a friend of ippr, please click here.
Richard Thaler, Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago and Co-Author of “Nudge”
18 July 2008
ippr hosted a Friday Exchange with celebrated American economist Richard Thaler, co-author of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth and Happiness – this year's most talked about book on public policy and Government, recently described by The Times as an increasingly influential political “theme whose time has come”.
Thaler, considered by many to be the inventor of the field of behavioural economics, will discussed how his discipline has spawned a “libertarian paternalist” approach to public policy in which small “nudges” that work with the grain of human nature – from existing social norms to smart incentives, opt-in systems and “default” settings - can have a significant impact on the public behaviour. He argued that such approaches can have profound effects in a range of areas, from encouraging healthier living to higher rates of saving and recycling.
Download the event recordings:
Richard Thaler Part 1 (.mp3)
Richard Thaler Part 2 (.mp3)
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