Applying Behavioral Sciences in the Service of Four Major Economic Problems
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Behavioral science keeps inventing tools and then looking for problems they can solve, when it should start with big economic questions and build insights to match. That flip would let behavioral ideas work alongside traditional policy tools on the large-scale problems economic policymakers actually face. It is an argument for reversing the usual order of applying behavioral science to policy, pushing against the current tools-first approach.
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