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Boosts: A Remedy for Rizzo and Whitman's Panglossian Fatalism
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Philosophy and History, Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6727-8723
2021 (English)In: Review of Behavioral Economics, ISSN 2326-6198, E-ISSN 2326-6201, Vol. 8, no 3-4, p. 285-303Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

I identify two problematic conclusions that remain somewhat implicit in Rizzo and Whitman's book: the Panglossian conclusion that whatever the individual thinks or wants is best for her, and the Fatalistic conclusion that there are no justified paternalistic interventions. Against the first conclusion, I critically discuss the authors' arguments against consistency-based rationality. Against the second, I show that there is a whole class of paternalistic interventions, Boosts, that do not require Rizzo and Whitman's demanding epistemic preconditions in order to be successful.

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Now Publishers , 2021. Vol. 8, no 3-4, p. 285-303
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Behavioral policy, nudge, boost, Libertarianism, paternalism, rationality, consistency, knowledge deficit
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-306748DOI: 10.1561/105.00000143ISI: 000729808700001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85114632214OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-306748DiVA, id: diva2:1625819
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Available from: 2022-01-10 Created: 2022-01-10 Last updated: 2024-08-28Bibliographically approved

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