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Solving social problems with a nudge

Sendhil Mullainathan · TED

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About

MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, how to prevent diabetes-related blindness and how to implement solar-cell technology ... yet somehow, we don't or can't. Why?

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TEDIndia 2009
Speaker
Sendhil Mullainathan
Year
2009
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Medicine and health, Economics, Psychology and the brain
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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