{"id":93,"date":"2014-10-16T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T22:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=93"},"modified":"2020-07-27T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T21:02:33","slug":"rationality-and-irrationality-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/rationality-and-irrationality-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Rationality and Irrationality in Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cass Sunstein\/\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tali Sharot<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/newsAndMedia\/videoAndAudio\/channels\/publicLecturesAndEvents\/player.aspx?id=2641\"><strong>Listen to the podcast<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thursday 16 October 2014, 6.30 \u2013 8pm<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE\u00a0<strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.harvard.edu\/faculty\/directory\/10871\/Sunstein\"><strong>Cass Sunstein<\/strong><\/a>, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School<\/p>\n<p><em>In conversation with<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-TaliSharot.aspx\"><strong>Tali Sharot<\/strong><\/a>, Director of the Affective Brain Lab and Reader in the Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>What impact is behavioural science having on politics and business? Simplified disclosure, default rules, social norms, and \u2018choice architecture\u2019 are all being used to steer people in specific directions. Are these \u2018nudges\u2019 improving our decisions? Are they offsetting irrational behaviour?\u00a0<strong>Cass Sunstein<\/strong>, author of\u00a0<em>Nudge<\/em>\u00a0and the previous Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration\u00a0discussed these new policies and the question they raise about freedom of choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cass Sunstein\/\u00a0Tali Sharot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":11759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[34,40,19,44,20],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-behavioural-science","tag-epistemology","tag-ethics","tag-freedom","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2020\/06\/interview-wide2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11926,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/11926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}