# Solving social problems with a nudge

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/sendhil_mullainathan_solving_social_problems_with_a_nudge)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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?

## Lectures

1. [Solving social problems with a nudge](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/sendhil_mullainathan_solving_social_problems_with_a_nudge/fa4c859342eb), 18 min (TED's player)