Soft Paternalism and Nudging - Critique of the Behavioral Foundations

This brief note rises doubts on the argument that nudging will help people to behave more rational in terms of their own preferences. This justification of soft paternalism overlooks some methodological problems of expected utility theory which are one of the roots of behavioral economics.

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Year of publication:	2014-12-20
Authors:	Pasche, Markus
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	soft paternalism \| nudging \| behavioral economics \| utility theory \| rationality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	B4 - Economic Methodology ; D03 - Behavioral Economics; Underlying Principles ; d04
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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