I’ve written a lot about how interventions like Social Emotional Learning can help, but they’re not enough (see The manipulation of Social Emotional Learning and The Best Articles About The Study Showing Social Emotional Learning Isn’t Enough).

Eduardo Porter wrote a column in The New York Times headlined Nudges Aren’t Enough for Problems Like Retirement Savings where he makes a similar argument about so-called “nudges,” which encourage positive behavior by individuals but don’t get to the root causes of problems and, if we’re not careful, have the possibility of making things even worse.

Here’s an excerpt:

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