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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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