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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saint-Paul, Gilles (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Welfare economics.
Utilitarianism.
Public welfare.
Paternalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
welfare services.
utilitarianism.
Aide sociale.
Paternalisme.
Utilitarisme.
Économie du bien-être.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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?

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