Long TextExercise 67 of 74

In 2008, the economists Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein published a book that would profoundly influence the way governments around the world think about policy design. Their central argument was deceptively simple: because human beings are not the perfectly rational decision-makers that classical economics assumes…

• What does the writer say attracted governments to the concept of nudging?
• What ethical concern does the philosopher Luc Bovens raise about nudges?