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The coronavirus pandemic forced governments to temporarily sacrifice economic prosperity for the health and well-being of their citizens. The lock-down had all the more impact in developed countries because so much economic activity has come to take the form of face-to-face services. People responded by being far more cautious about their interactions with others; they self-enforced a new set of rules, which in turn have shaped each other’s behaviour, very quickly becoming a new norm (David Halpern, Head of the ‘Nudge Unit’ for Behavioural Psychology, on BBC Radio 4, ‘Start the Week’, 27 April, 2020).
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Jordan, B. (2021). How Social Value Works. In: Social Value in Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60421-9_3
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