{"id":266,"date":"2016-02-21T19:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:42:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T19:42:10","slug":"we-are-more-rational-than-those-who-nudge-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"We Are More Rational Than Those Who Nudge Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"Steven Poole\" href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/we-are-more-rational-than-those-who-nudge-us\">https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/we-are-more-rational-than-those-who-nudge-us <\/a>Steven Poole argues against the coercive anti-rational implications of the Nudge thesis.\u00a0 I remember reading Sunnstein&#8217;s &#8220;Nudge&#8221; years ago, and how it opened my eyes to the possibilities of inducing rational behavior on a societal scale.\u00a0 Since the book came out, as the article points out, Western governments have embraced its policy suggestions, in some cases hiring &#8220;choice architects&#8221; to create policy such that the general populace &#8220;did the right thing&#8221; by default.<\/p>\n<p>Not far from here to <a href=\"https:\/\/berlinfamilylectures.uchicago.edu\/2014-lawrence-lessig\">Lessig&#8217;s &#8220;Tweed-ism&#8221; primary thesis<\/a>.\u00a0 In fact, we might be seeing the breakdown of this in the surging candidacies of Sanders and Trump, as described by <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2016\/02\/19\/clay-shirky-social-media-turn.html\">Clay Shirky<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/we-are-more-rational-than-those-who-nudge-us Steven Poole argues against the coercive anti-rational implications of the Nudge thesis.\u00a0 I remember reading Sunnstein&#8217;s &#8220;Nudge&#8221; years ago, and how it opened my eyes to the possibilities of inducing rational behavior on a societal scale.\u00a0 Since the book came out, as the article points out, Western governments have embraced its policy suggestions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}