NPR’s TED Radio Hour Examines Guinea Worm Eradication Efforts

NPR: How Are Health Workers Putting An End To Guinea Worms?
In this TED Radio Hour show, “Professor Richard Thaler returns to the show to talk about how a nudge has essentially eradicated guinea worm disease in Africa. … Thaler’s 2008 bestseller, Nudge, (co-written with Cass Sunstein) explores how concepts of behavioral economics are used to tackle many of society’s major problems…” (6/24).

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