An edition of The tyranny of utility (2011)

The tyranny of utility

behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism

The tyranny of utility
Gilles Saint-Paul, Gilles Sain ...
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An edition of The tyranny of utility (2011)

The tyranny of utility

behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism

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Language
English
Pages
163

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Table of 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?

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Princeton

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
330.12
Library of Congress
HB846 .S25 2011, HB846.S25 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 163 p. ;
Number of pages
163

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25010760M
ISBN 10
0691128170
ISBN 13
9780691128177
LCCN
2011003639
OCLC/WorldCat
687685779

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL16125970W

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