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Sobre las políticas conductuales de desarrollo humano: de qué manera contribuye la política pública conductual al desarrollo humano

No. 91 (2022-06-01)
  • Pablo Garcés-Velástegui

Resumen

El influyente enfoque de capacidad, base del paradigma del desarrollo humano, se enfoca en las personas y en su calidad de vida, como método para evaluar el desarrollo. Para ello, proporciona una elaborada descripción de los seres humanos y de su capacidad de agencia. Este proyecto también ha abordado la temática de la racionalidad, aunque sin ofrecer una explicación para la toma de decisiones inferiores y el comportamiento no reflexivo. Aunque la literatura ha propuesto la economía del comportamiento para complementar el enfoque capacitario en el nivel abstracto, hacen falta detalles sobre las implicaciones políticas de esta combinación. Este artículo llena ese vacío, al pasar de la teoría a la práctica. Las implicaciones relevantes para las políticas se extraen en términos de mandatos, empujones (nudges) y estímulos (boosts). Si bien todos pueden contribuir al desarrollo humano, de formas diversas y en diferentes grados, los estímulos resuenan más con el enfoque de capacidad.

Palabras clave: capacidad de agencia, desarrollo humano, economía del comportamiento, libertad, racionalidad

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