Quotes About Policy

We don't have to stop inventing abstract models that describe the behavior of imaginary Econs. We do, however, have to stop assuming that those models are accurate descriptions of behavior, and stop basing policy decisions on such flawed analyses.

First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed. If private companies or public officials think that one policy produces better outcomes, they can greatly influence the outcome by choosing it as the default.

In complex situations, the Just Maximize Choices mantra is not enough to create good policy.

2. We can't do evidence-based policy without evidence.

If private companies or public officials think that one policy produces better outcomes, they can greatly influence the outcome by choosing it as the default.

In our understanding, a policy is "paternalistic" if it tries to influence choices in a way that will make choosers better off, as judged by themselves. 3

California and New York now require that any subscription that is initiated online can also be canceled online.

John Rawls (1971) called the publicity principle. In its simplest form, the publicity principle bans government from selecting a policy that it would not be able or willing to defend publicly to its own citizens.

By properly deploying both incentives and nudges, we can improve our ability to improve people's lives, and help solve many of society's major problems. And we can do so while still insisting on everyone's freedom to choose.

no propugnamos un gobierno más grande, sino sólo mejor gobernanza.

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy

Society takes enormous trouble over who is allowed to adopt a child, but none about who is allowed to produce one. This has led the psychologist David Lykken to suggest that parents should have to get a licence before child-bearing, or otherwise risk the danger that their child will be taken away for adoption.

Her supervisor explained that the Family Medical Leave Act did not extend to siblings. A brother, in the eyes of the medical-leave law, was not family.

By 1963, more than 98 percent of US gasoline was leaded. When, a decade later, lead was finally ordered removed from the US gasoline supply, it was removed because it fouled the new catalytic converters mandated to fight smog, a different air pollution problem, not because it had been labeled a dangerous pollutant itself.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

The government, in effect, declared privacy privatized.

Protestors can have a big impact, but in the end it's governments that reshape the world.

Los manifestantes pueden causar un gran impacto, pero al final son los gobiernos los que remodelan el mundo.

Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast." Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Lowther looked shocked. "That would mean it's our policy to kill civilians." "Exactly." "But the government assures us—" "The government lies," Boy said. "And the bomber crews know it. Many of them don't give a damn, of course, but some feel bad. They believe that if we're doing the right thing, then we should say so, and if we're doing the wrong thing we should stop.

When Ethel said we should give everyone free education and free health care and unemployment insurance, I told her she was living in a dream world. But now look: everything she campaigned for has come to pass, and yet England is still England.

Sometimes Winston imagined he had devised a policy when all he had done was coin a phrase.

Lenin también ha anunciado una jornada de ocho horas para los trabajadores y educación universal y gratuita para sus hijos.