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Behavioral Economics and Paternalism

Cass R. Sunstein
- 01 May 2013 - 
- Vol. 122, Iss: 7, pp 1867
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This article is published in Yale Law Journal.The article was published on 2013-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 13 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Paternalism & Behavioral economics.

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A Constitutional Economics Perspective on Soft Paternalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss from a constitutional economics perspective whether individuals find it in their common constitutional interest to endow representatives and bureaucrats with the competence to impose soft paternalist policies.
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Evolutionary economics and the case for a constitutional libertarian paternalism—a comment on Martin Binder, “should evolutionary economists embrace libertarian paternalism?”

TL;DR: The authors argue that Binder starts from an incomplete model of the institutional status quo and neglects an obvious alternative to the standard variant of LP, namely, a constitutionally constrained LP, and that most of Binder's objections do not apply with equal force to such a refined version of LP.
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A constitutional economics perspective on soft paternalism

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss from a constitutional economics perspective whether individuals find it in their common constitutional interest to endow representatives and bureaucrats with the competence to impose soft paternalist policies.
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A forum on minds and institutions

TL;DR: The purpose of this special topic forum is to call for research on the topic of minds and institutions and briefly discusses three specific research opportunities: bounded rationality versus mind, many minds and the interfaces of institutions, and the affordances of institutions and arbitrage.
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Paternalism and global governance

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the notion of international paternalism as the attempt by one actor to substitute his judgment for another actor's on the grounds that such an imposition will improve the welfare of the target actor.