The tyranny of utility
Subtitle: behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism
By: Gilles Saint-Paul
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780691128177
Subjects: Utilitarianism; Welfare economics; Public welfare; Paternalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Political organization and the conception of man; title: The challenge to the unitary individual in Western thought; title: Economics: the last bastion of rationality; title: Economics goes behavioral; title: From utility to happiness; title: Post-utilitarianism : searching for a collective soul in the behavioral era; title: The policy prescriptions of behavioral economics; title: The modern paternalistic state; title: Responsibility transfer; title: The role of science; title: Markets in a paternalistic world; title: Where to go?