The “Nudge” of the Obama Era Was Always Neoliberal Nonsense: he purported to fix all manner of social ills by pushing people to behave differently?

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when Democrats pretend to be Republicans, they lose. case in point: Dem Senate candidate Joe Donnelly from Indiana chopped wood with an axe in an ad (watch below) and he lost his race even though he was the incumbent and frontrunner in polling

The “Nudge” of the Obama Era Was Always Neoliberal Nonsense

Remember the policy “nudges” of the Barack Obama years, which purported to fix all manner of social ills by pushing people to behave differently? Surprise, surprise: its intellectual edifice, behavioral science, has been exposed as a fraud.

jacobin.com