It’s a good time to be in behaviour. For some time now, organisations have been integrating the findings of behavioural science into the way they go about getting things done.
Under a coalition government (2010-15), the UK saw the creation of a Behavioural Insights Team, informally known as the Nudge Unit. Now an independent entity part-owned by the Cabinet Office, the project was indicative of the Cameron government’s emphasis on fiscal efficiency fuelled by new ideas from modern business. Typically slower to try out new ideas, the government’s adoption of behavioural insight showed that this area of academia, which had...