The politics of public behaviour
This project is a chance to explore the tensions in the current debate between fostering a 'nanny state' and finding a response to some of the most pressing social issues of our time.
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- Irrational incandescence | Economist.com Article discussing 'apparent irrationality' of people not changing their lightbulbs to (cheaper) energy-saving ones. Suggests: 'One policy option is to decouple the utilities' revenues from the amount of electricity they sell. That gives them an incentive to increase the efficiency of power usage rather than to produce from : duncanoleary 15th June 2007