Faculty Writing: On Nationalisms of Ethnic Purity, and Personal Risk Management
August 06, 2024
In The Yale Review, Suzanne Schneider offers insights into the New Right’s efforts to construct a nationalism founded in ethnic and cultural purity—and why this is incompatible with “democracy, freedom, and human decency.” Then, in the International Review of Applied Economics, she cautions that “nudging”—the steering, via market-based incentives, of private “citizen-consumers” towards “prudential choices” in the management of personal risk—may actually wind up “leaving advanced democracies less able to manage the risks they face.”