4 January, 2018Sam Ashworth-Hayes Share Presents, the present and pensions. I am going to begin this article by making three predictions about your behaviour. The first is that you left wrapping …
Thinking outside the penalty box.
21 December, 2017Sam Ashworth-Haye Share Thinking outside the penalty box. This blog post is a bit different. A lot of the articles we write try to show you how we change …
No one likes losing.
12 December, 2017Itzhak Rasooly and Sam Ashworth-HayesShare No one likes losing. Every winter, the UK finds itself wrestling with a flu outbreak. The government runs a vaccination programme targeting the young …
A soft-touch approach to tax compliance.
20 November, 2017Sam Ashworth-HayesShare A soft-touch approach to tax compliance. Tax collectors are used to less-than-enthusiastic compliance, but that doesn’t make non-payment any less infuriating. People who file their taxes, accept …
One in, X out: a push and a nudge towards better regulation.
16 November, 2017Aidan Calvelli and Sam Ashworth-HayesShare One in, X out: a push and a nudge towards better regulation. Grover Norquist is not a fan of big government. Arguably the …
An end to reckon-based policymaking?
7 August, 2017Sam Ashworth-HayesShare An end to reckon-based policymaking? Of all the words to cause an economist’s heart to sink, there is nothing quite like a politician opening a sentence …
Uber generates 18-million-dollars of consumer ‘wellbeing’ every day.
30 September, 2016Samantha van UrkShare Uber generates 18-million-dollars of consumer ‘wellbeing’ every day. The price of a good in a market reflects both consumer value and the cost of producing …
Taking regulation to the masses? The trend towards customer engagement.
1 June, 2016Aidan CalvelliShare Taking regulation to the masses? The trend towards customer engagement. When most people hear the word “regulation,” they likely think about government bureaucrats and bloated agencies. For …
Test scores drop when the football’s on.
31 May, 2016Rob MetcalfeShare Test scores drop when the football’s on. On June 10th, the 2016 European Championship starts in France. England, Northern Ireland, and Wales will be represented at …