Tag: behavioural economics
All new smaller size! Why getting less with shrinkflation is preferable to paying more
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Have you noticed your favourite chocolate is a little smaller, there are fewer biscuits in the same-sized package or bags of chips contain more air?
If you haven’t,...
Do vaccination passports take away freedoms? It depends on how you frame the question
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You may have already downloaded to your phone a digital certificate proving you have received one or two doses of a...
Why lotteries, doughnuts and beer aren’t the right vaccination ‘nudges’
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Money, doughnuts and beer. As high-tech and effective as our COVID vaccines are, getting enough people to take them to achieve herd...