The tyranny of utility : behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Saint-Paul, Gilles
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Subjects:	Welfare economics. Utilitarianism. Paternalism. Public welfare.

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?