Escaping paternalism : rationality, behavioral economics, and public policy / Mario J. Rizzo, New York University, Glen Whitman, California State University, Northridge.

The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition o...

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Main Authors:	Rizzo, Mario J. (Author), Whitman, Glen (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Series:	Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
Subjects:	Economics > Psychological aspects. Rational choice theory. Paternalism > Economic aspects.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139061810
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