Screen LibraryThe tyranny of utility：behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | vii, 163 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691128177 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0691128170 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F061 |
| CLC: | F061.4 |
| Call Number: | F061.4/S149 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. 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? |