When:

25th March 2009, 12:30PM

Where:

Demos, 3rd Floor Magdalen House, 136 Tooley St, London SE1 2TU

Professor Richard H. Thaler – Author of Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness
John Kay – Economist and author of The Long and the Short of It
Richard Reeves – Director, Demos (Chair)


Could the credit crunch have been prevented by a more effective use of behavioural economics, or ‘nudges’?  Can we now nudge ourselves out of recession? And can nudges be used to alter the behaviour of the financial sector, and be built into the new forms of capitalism now emerging?

Demos is delighted to present a debate between Richard Thaler and John Kay on nudges and the global financial crisis, chaired by Richard Reeves.

You can download the audio from the event:

• The talks from Professor Thaler and John Kay - mp3, 40MB
• Q&A - mp3, 37MB

Please note that spaces are limited. Contact events@demos.co.uk or 020 7367 6333 for additional information or to inform us of any access requirements.