🔹Thaler's Prescriptions Come With Potential—and Limitations🔹.. ‘Highly Problematic’

🔹Thaler's Prescriptions Come With Potential—and Limitations🔹

‘Highly Problematic’

Nudging has its benefits, though some worry about the costs
Behavioral interventions have a mixed record, reports show

not all interventions work as intended. For instance, ... an attempt at encouraging voter registration in Wales by sending theoretically higher-impact notification letters and emails had mixed or no results.

... And nudging can have a downside, “private sector nudge is highly problematic,” such as when doctors and dentists manipulate patients into scheduling more procedures. ... the government could nudge in the direction of more regulation, which he views as a bad thing.

Thaler himself has noted that the private sector can nudge unscrupulously. “Many companies are nudging purely for their own profit and not in customers’ best interests,” ...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-09/thaler-s-prescriptions-come-with-potential-and-limitations
Thaler likes to autograph copies of his bestseller with the invocation “Nudge for good.” It often works out that way, but not always.