All Posts Tagged With: "Cass Sunstein"
Paternalist Nudges
Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein and University of Chicago economics professor Richard Thaler are self-proclaimed “libertarian paternalists” (http://tinyurl.com/6xy6l4). Contradiction in terms? They think not. According to their approach, “[G]overnments try to move people in good directions without imposing penalties, mandates or bans.” The part about “moving people in good directions” is the paternalism. The part [...]
1Nov2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedPaternalist Nudges
Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler are self-proclaimed libertarian paternalists. A contradiction in terms?
15Aug2008 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedLibertarian Paternalism: A Test
Behavioral economics is a growing subfield of economics based on the finding that people are not as rational as economic models have traditionally assumed. Numerous experiments have shown that people’s choices are systematically altered in response to changes in how those choices are framed, even though the framing is irrelevant to the consequences of those [...]
1Jul2007 | Dwight R. Lee | 0 comments | ContinuedBook Reviews – October 2006
- Reviving the Invisible Hand: The
Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century
by Deepak Lal Reviewed by Richard M. Ebeling
- Laws of Fear
by Cass Sunstein Reviewed by Donald J. Boudreaux
- Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an
Empire’s
Slaves
by Adam Hochschild Reviewed by Becky Akers
- Why Men Earn More
by Warren Farrell Reviewed by George C. Leef
Libertarian Paternalism?
Can paternalism and libertarianism be squared with each other? Two prominent scholars think so. University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein and University of Chicago economist Richard Thaler make a case for what they call “libertarian paternalism.” Here’s their argument. A large body of experimental data, gathered mostly by behavioral psychologists and behavioral economists, shows [...]
1Sep2006 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 0 comments | ContinuedТhe Second Bill of Rights: FDR’s Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever
The problem with the American welfare state, according to Cass Sunstein, is that it is too small. In this book the widely respected University of Chicago law professor argues that the federal government should guarantee Americans a broad range of “economic rights.” Sunstein organizes the book around the story of Franklin Roosevelt’s 1944 State of [...]
14Dec2005 | Michael DeBow | 1 comment | ContinuedBook Reviews – December 2002
Republic.com by Cass Sunstein Princeton University Press • 2001 • 202 pages • $29.95 Reviewed by Andrew Cohen Developing technologies such as the World Wide Web and e-mail have become fixtures in our daily lives. But is the Internet consistent with human flourishing in a free society? In Republic.com, Cass Sunstein, a prominent legal scholar [...]
1Dec2002 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedGovernment as Slave Owner
James Bovard is the author of Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State & the Demise of the Citizen (St. Martin’s Press, 1999). The Declaration of Independence proclaimed that “all men . . . are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights.” This assertion captured the idealism and the principles of this nation’s [...]
1Feb2000 | James Bovard | 1 comment | Continued-
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