Economist Elinor Ostrom believed in the power of economics to “bring out the best in humans.” The way to do it, she thought, was to help them build community.
While important in the short term, the power of the market and technology alone will not save us in the long term. In the long term, we will have to change the way we think.
When should you hold ’em and when should you fold ’em? Use this set of decision-making tools to help you identify when it’s time to move on and find the courage to do so.
Take a moment to dive into the pieces your fellow behavioral science enthusiasts read most this year.
It’s common to hear that transport providers are “simply getting people from A to B”: a low-bar ambition that misses the real purpose of much travel.
Netflix’s landing page is full of choice architecture tools—plausible paths, smart defaults, and carefully curated descriptions. But it doesn’t do all of the work itself. The platform takes cues from you, too.
Proactively connecting students to opportunities that align with their interests could help students thrive at school and help build pathways to careers in the community.
Designing, developing, and implementing products and programs is hard. Behavioral scientists can help. But only if you understand the roles they can play, the problems they can solve, and how they can add value to an organization like yours.
In striving to improve our lives, our work, and our society, we overwhelmingly add, overlooking another powerful option—subtraction.
Behavioral science and design both try to solve problems and imagine new possibilities. Though the fields are intersecting more and more, we’ve only just scratched the surface.
