All Posts Tagged With: "smoking regulations"

Libertarian 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 | Continued

Nazi Tactics

Prior to the 1930s, Germany was Europe’s most hospitable country for Jews. While Jews were only 1 percent of the population, they were oneourth of Germany’s law and medical students. In some German cities, Jews were the majority of doctors. While Jews were only 5 percent of the Berlin population in 1905, they paid 31 [...]

30Jan2003 | Walter E. Williams | 0 comments | Continued

For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health by Jacob Sullum

The Free Press • 1998 • 288 pages • $25.00 John Attarian is a freelance writer in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and an adjunct scholar with the Midland, Michigan-based Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Hounded by billboards and other “public-service” exhortations, barred from lighting up almost everywhere but in their own cars and homes, and saddled [...]

1Mar1999 | John Attarian | 0 comments | Continued

Let Property Settle Smoking Disputes

Andrew Cohen teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. Public policy debates nowadays are often confused about what ought to count as a “public” policy. Injecting a healthy appeal to individual rights could help resolve disputes by showing just what ought to count as anyone’s proper business. The antismoking hysteria gripping America is [...]

1Feb1998 | Andrew I. Cohen | 2 comments | Continued

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