3 Questions: Hunt Alcott on behavioral economics and the energy crisis

Behavioral economics is used to examine how consumers make decisions about everything from their life savings to which brands of jam they select in a supermarket. Hunt Allcott, a behavioral economist with a two-year appointment as the Energy and Society Fellow in MIT`s Department of Economics and the MIT Energy Initiative, wants to apply his field`s insights to the realm of energy use.

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