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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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2011.
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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?


