Dr. Nick Chater is a professor of behavioural science at Warwick University and coauthor of It’s on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society’s Deepest Problems.
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Fixing Society’s Toughest Problems? ‘It’s On You’
How did we come to think of society’s toughest problems as something for individuals to manage rather than governments to regulate?
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The Long Push To Blame Systemic Problems On Individuals
‘It’s on You’ chronicles how corporations and behavioral economists pushed for huge, systemic problems to be fixed by personal choices.