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The tyranny of utility : behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism / Gilles Saint-Paul.
LIBRA HB846 .S25 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saint-Paul, Gilles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Welfare economics.
- Utilitarianism.
- Paternalism.
- Public welfare.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 163 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Political organization and the conception of man
- The challenge to the unitary individual in Western thought
- Economics: the last bastion of rationality
- Economics goes behavioral
- From utility to happiness
- Post-utilitarianism : searching for a collective soul in the behavioral era
- The policy prescriptions of behavioral economics
- The modern paternalistic state
- Responsibility transfer
- The role of science
- Markets in a paternalistic world
- Where to go?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691128177
- 0691128170
- OCLC:
- 687685779
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