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The Tyranny of Utility : Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism /

The general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these interventions for utilitaria...

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Autor principal: Saint-Paul, Gilles (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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?