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☆ How Behavioral Economics Took Over America - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Leif Weatherby | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
My watch constantly buzzes with “relax reminders.” The number of calories appears next to every menu item at fast-food restaurants. The “nudge doctrine” the pair developed has led to the creation of hundreds of “nudge units” in governments all over the world (including our own), that seek to put nudges in policies and procedures. The science behind nudging is little more than a thin set of claims about how humans are “predictably irrational,” and our policies and systems should heavily divest from its influence. The nudge doctrine originated in behavioral economics, a field of applied social science that has deeply influenced public policy and algorithm design. Behavioral economics is based in large part on the Nobel-winning insights of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, whose groundbreaking experiments in the 1970s showed that humans made systematic errors when reasoning about statistics.
Persons: Cass Sunstein, Richard Thaler, Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky Organizations: Nobel
☆ What Just Happened at West Virginia University Is Alarming - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Leif Weatherby | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
E. Gordon Gee, the president of West Virginia University, once promised that the school would have 40,000 students by 2020, but the figure is still well under 30,000 across three campuses and is projected to drop. The humanities are under threat more broadly across the nation because of the perceived left-wing ideology of the liberal arts. To resist this assault, we must provide broad access to a true liberal arts education. The campaign to overturn the liberal arts is politically motivated, through and through. I was lucky: My parents put a liberal arts education above all other goals.
Persons: Gordon Gee, Gee, Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse, ” Organizations: West Virginia University, West Virginians, Democratic Party, Republican Party Locations: New York
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