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01 February 2010
Solving social problems with a nudge: Sendhil Mullainathan on TED.com
MacArthur winner Sendhil Mullainathan uses the lens of behavioral economics to study a tricky set of social problems -- those we know how to solve, but don't. We know how to reduce child deaths due to diarrhea, how to prevent diabetes-related blindness and how to implement solar-cell technology ... yet somehow, we don't or can't. Why? (Recorded at TEDIndia, November 2009, Mysore, India. Duration: 18:01)
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