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These obligations place real limits on the Italian authorities’ macroeconomic policy
choices.
European policymakers should also guarantee non-discriminatory wholesale access to communications networks, and that consumers and businesses have a range of
choices
for telecommunications and online services.
The novel idea, elucidated in Cass Sunstein’s and Richard Thaler’s book Nudge , is that skillfully controlling the way alternatives are presented to us can “nudge” us toward making the
choices
that our own “better selves” would make.
But, while System II
choices
may be more effective than System-I decisions, they are more “expensive” to make: one needs data, analysis, and concentration.
In these situations, liberal paternalists feel no qualms about taking control and forcing
choices
upon us (“Wear seat belts and enroll in the pension plan, and in the end you’ll thank me”).
The criticisms of this attitude boil down to a simple question: “Who is better equipped than I am to make
choices
about my welfare?”
With a neat twist of logic, our cognitive imperfections are turned on their heads, and made to work to achieve System-II
choices.
And, indeed, well-chosen nudges have been shown to be extremely effective in altering
choices
that make a substantive difference to the lives of many (say, enrollment in pension plans).
What is gained by tricking rather than forcing people into making
choices
they wouldn’t have made?
As long as choice engineering tricks us into making
choices
that our own more deliberate self would make , they say, manipulation is justifiable.
Nudges should be so chosen as to prod us toward those
choices
that we ourselves would make, if we would only sit down and think carefully about the matter at hand.
Unfortunately, however, hyper-rationality does not always produce attractive outcomes when social , rather than individual ,
choices
are concerned.
The Enlightenment idea that our System-II rationality can always point to an optimal choice about which every reasonable individual would agree clashes with the widely accepted modern idea that there is a plurality of reasonable
choices.
Whose and which
choices
are the nudgers suppose to encourage?
The first is that governments do not have the information needed to make the right
choices
about which firms or industries to support.
In Syria, where sizable chunks of territory are already under Islamist control and the pro-Al Qaeda Al Nusra Front overshadows the US-backed Free Syrian Army, the Obama administration is staring at the bitter harvest of its previous policy
choices.
The value added from European integration now extends beyond EU membership to include participation in sub-groups like the eurozone or the Schengen Area that have a more direct and tangible impact on daily life and key policy
choices.
Many NTC members believe that the Council lacks the legitimacy to make tough
choices.
Accordingly, faced with a weakening global economy, they confront two basic policy
choices.
At the end of the day, the capacity of people to evaluate risks and make informed
choices
will be as important to regulating the use of drugs as more humane and efficient laws and policies.
Currency wars and beggar-thy-neighbor policies are triggered when one country’s policy measures distort the
choices
open to others.
Trump’s highly conservative cabinet
choices
– who include an uncommon number of billionaires – are not at all consonant with his campaign, during which he presented himself as the champion of blue-collar workers, the non-ideological businessman who would make the government work.
But his
choices
place him firmly in the camp of plutocrats with little concern for workers and the middle class.
For a majority of Americans, now more than ever, Israel is the first line of defense for the West against Iranian-led radical Islam, even if they disagree with the tactical
choices
made by Ehud Olmert’s government.
In countries like Greece, Finland, Italy, and Portugal, joining the single currency ran against the interests of some industrialists, who viewed the devaluation of the national currency as preferable to better but tougher
choices
aimed at maintaining and improving competitiveness.
In the coming weeks, South Korea’s government will confront one of the toughest
choices
that any government can face: whether the short-term cost in human lives is worth the potential long-term benefits (also in terms of human lives) that a famine-induced collapse of North Korea could bring.
Indeed, in order to make such investments, democracies require either brave leadership or an electorate that understands the costs of postponing hard
choices.
The debate does not lead to agreement, moderate voters do not know what to believe, and policy
choices
ultimately follow the path of least resistance – until they run into a brick wall.
In other words, they select their views to justify their political
choices.
In a globally inter-connected world, however, a new politics has developed, in which both the left and right fringes fear that outside competition or influences will limit their ability to shape political
choices.
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