The tyranny of utility behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism / Gilles Saint-Paul.

Author/creator Saint-Paul, Gilles
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPrinceton : Princeton University Press,
Descriptionvii, 163 p. ; 24 cm.
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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?
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2011003639
ISBN9780691128177 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0691128170 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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