Mario J. Rizzo, Glen Whitman

Escaping Paternalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 973g
• ISBN-13: 9781107016941
• ISBN-10: 1107016940
• Artikelnr.: 57478954

Autorenporträt

Mario J. Rizzo is a professor of Economics, Director of the Foundations of the Market Economy Program, and Co-Director of the Classical Liberal Institute at New York University. He is the co-author of Austrian Economics Re-Examined: The Economics of Time and Ignorance (2014). He has published in such journals as Journal of Legal Studies, the Columbia Law Review and the UCLA Law Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: puppets and puppet masters
2. What is rationality?
3. Rationality for puppets
4. Preference biases
5. The rationality of beliefs
6. Deficient foundations for behavioral policymaking
7. Knowledge problems in paternalist policymaking
8. The political economy of paternalist policymaking
9. Slippery slopes in paternalist policymaking
10. Common threads, escape routes, and paths forward
References
Index.