Cato Unbound is hosting a series of essays dealing with New Paternalism. The lead essay comes from Glen Whitman, an academic arguing from the libertarian position, and Richard Thaler, one of the leading scholars in behavioral economics (as made famous in this book) is set to respond tomorrow, the sixth. I am anxious to see how Thaler, a rare left-ish economists working at the conservative environment of U Chicago, responds to these subtle objections.
For a recent NYtimes article from Thaler, see this (I am unimpressed by that analysis for more reasons than those presented by Whitman above).
For what basically amounts to a video version of Whitman's lead essay, go here.
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