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Salvaging the concept of nudge

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ID23367248
AuthorsYashar Saghai (0000-0001-9656-6794, Johns Hopkins University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume39
Issue8
Pages487-493
Publication date2013-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Medical Ethics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6800 • E-ISSN: 1473-4257
PublisherBMJ (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1136/medethics-2012-100727
PMID23427215
OpenAlexW2101960330
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited17

In recent years, ‘nudge’ theory has gained increasing attention for the design of population-wide health interventions. The concept of nudge puts a label on efficacious influences that preserve freedom of choice without engaging the influencees’ deliberative capacities. Given disagreements over what it takes genuinely to preserve freedom of choice, the question is whether health influences relying on automatic cognitive processes may preserve freedom of choice in a sufficiently robust sense to be serviceable for the moral evaluation of actions and policies. In this article, I offer an argument to this effect, explicating preservation of freedom of choice in terms of choice-set preservation and noncontrol. I also briefly explore the healthcare contexts in which nudges may have priority over more controlling influences.

Argument (complex analysis) · Choice architecture · Economics · Epistemology · Freedom of choice · Law and economics · Nudge theory · Political science · Positive economics · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Table (database) · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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