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Politics Unpacked

Nudge Nudge Wink Wink

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley speaks to Nobel Prize winning behavioural economist Richard Thaler about this new book Nudge: The Final Edition and how governments can change people's behaviour in a pandemic. 


PLUS


Times columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purves discuss the day's news.



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0:00.0

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be capable of powering over 6 million homes a year with clean renewable energy, a major step

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towards the UK achieving net zero carbon emissions. And all this is creating thousands of sustainable

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green jobs in communities right across the UK. Find out more about what SSE are doing at SSE.com

1:01.6

slash change.

1:22.8

Wals all the laws of the land. Well, I've been speaking to Richard Sayler, the co-author of the

1:28.2

original Nudge book about the final edition which he's published and asked him if actually the

1:33.1

last 18 months of lockdowns and coronavirus restrictions has meant that actually we don't need

1:38.0

to be nudged, we just need to be told what to do. So that's coming up as our big thing on the

1:41.1

podcast. But first, as ever, it's our columnist panel and it's Monday, so it must be Libby Rachel,

1:45.6

it's Libby Pervis and Rachel Alvester. Now, Libby, let's start with your column today because I thought

1:50.5

it was really interesting, because normally, you know, the great culture war is between the

1:54.6

generations, as you described between the snowflakes and boomers, and you make a plea that actually

2:00.8

we thought we could all learn from those who are of a different age to us.

2:06.1

Yeah, it was sparked off by a couple of bits of research about how far mental ability improves

2:10.3

or declines with age and it just made me think about how much it changes and how you actually need

2:15.5

a wide mix of ages from early 20s to late 70s in any enterprise because it's interesting and it

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