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Online course creators and coaches are in an industry that is booming. It's a multi-billion dollar industry and now anyone can now create online courses and earn a living from it. What can you learn from people who have turned their expertise into income? The Knowledge Industry podcast, hosted by ex-BBC journalist Mark Egan, looks at the story behind online educators who have made this leap. What works with online courses? Can you really create an online lifestyle business around online teaching? How has this entrepreneurship changed people's lives? Tune into the Knowledge Industry for weekly ...

Do people always act rationally and in their own best interests? US economist Richard Thaler and legal scholar Cass Sunstein did not believe so, and were convinced that psychological factors often stopped people from making the best decisions. Their 2008 work Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness argues that governments should "nudge" citizens to make better choices in all sorts of areas, from eating habits, to health, to financial planning.