behavioural

The Behavioural Economics Team of the Australian Government has begun podcasting, easing into the format by posting an interview between a staff member and experimental economist

From a scientific point of view, the standard way public policy is implemented at scale with little testing is extremely reckless. But human behaviour is “predictably irrational” and experimental trials offer policy assurance.

Nudges have taken the public sector by storm, expanding all over government. One of their chief promoters around the world is confident they aren’t a passing fad, but warns against complacency and overuse.

The NSW premier’s nudge unit has produced a guide to increasing workforce diversity by reducing the impact of cognitive bias.