“[T]he call to social action needs to speak to individuals’ motivations and account for the obstacles to giving; to fit with people’s lifestyles and interests.” That this is the big idea in the British Government’s new Green Paper on Giving that was launched in London on Wednesday, shows the influence of so-called behavioural economists like Richard Thaler […]
Britain’s Coalition Government gave another hint today about its Big Society big idea that it hopes will win over the voters, with the launch of an £80 million ($130 million) match fund to get philanthropists to start giving to the arts. Though the fund is a good idea, the government is still tinkering at the edges and more major […]
‘Buy One Get One Free’, known in the trade as BOGOF, is one of the supermarkets’ favourite tools to make us spend more money – most of us can’t resist something for nothing, sometimes even if we don’t really want it. So we were excited to learn last week that a similar technique has just scored […]