Nudges should be seen as an addition to the climate policy toolbox, not as a replacement for the old tools.
As the anthropologist Catherine Lutz has said, when all you have in your foreign policy toolbox is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Mr. Blinder has put together a careful set of proposals to refurbish the fiscal policy toolbox in case the economy takes a tumble and stimulus is needed quickly.
China is throwing its policy toolbox wide open in an all-out effort to sustain leadership in electric vehicles.
I agree that vital work needs to be done on both of these areas but we're using the wrong implements in the policy toolbox to create change.
"This is just one example of the Commission using the EU trade policy toolbox to tackle problems related to the dumping of steel," the European Commission explained in a public statement.
With this new IPCC emphasis, and as governments struggle to meet ambitious (yet still insufficient) climate targets, it is useful to take a serious look at nudges and other behavioural interventions as potentially useful supplements to the climate policy toolbox.
Among the most effective — if little examined — tools in Google's public policy toolbox has been its funding of nonprofit groups from across the political spectrum.
The 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath could have triggered the acceptance and the re-appearance of foresight in the EU's policy toolbox.
Monetary policy — the toolbox of central banks — as well as an economy-wide prudential policy that limits risky lending, needs to be proactive and take steps before a crisis occurs, Brunnermeier said.
