Behavioural social choice has been proposed as a social choice parallel to seminal developments in other decision sciences, such as behavioural decision theory, behavioural economics, behavioural finance and behavioural game theory. Behavioural paradigms compare how rational actors should make certain types of decisions with how real decision makers behave empirically. We highlight that importa...

The novel coronavirus and related COVID-19 pandemic have introduced unprecedented public policy health challenges. In addition, healthcare consumers workers face poor coordination by government officials, who lack consensus on critical elements that range from understanding risks managing uncertainty to crafting responses could help safely guide their constituents. As such, organisations increa...

Tim Hughes studied economics at the University of Auckland and has worked in policy roles at the Department of Corrections and the Ministry of Social Development. He is currently working in the sector investment team at the Ministry of Justice. A range of recent books have popularised many concepts from these fields and are leading an increasing number of people outside academia to revisit the ...

Behavioural economics has taught us that human agents don't always display consistent, context-independent and stable preferences in their choice behaviour. Can we nevertheless do welfare a way lives up to the anti-paternalist ideal most economists subscribe to? I here discuss Sugden's powerful critique of previous attempts at doing so, which he dubs ‘New Consensus’, as appealing problematic no...