Blogs about: Paternalism
New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 5: Deference to Authority
Glen Whitman wrote 4 hours ago: by Glen Whitman Another problem with the new paternalism is that it necessarily involves greater def … more →
rational drug users
questionbeggar wrote 3 days ago: I recently read a nice paper, in which the authors make the point that if drugs are legalized, they … more →
Terrorists Are Not Uneducated
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missivesfrommarx wrote 4 days ago: There’s a group on my campus collecting money to build schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan, wh … more →
New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 4: Context Dependence
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Glen Whitman wrote 1 week ago: by Glen Whitman New paternalists have also relied on the notion of context dependence to justify the … more →
alienation and markets
questionbeggar wrote 1 week ago: Some — those who I will call extreme antipaternalists — claim that anything is alienable … more →
talk: Libertarian paternalism
ocmpoma wrote 1 week ago: Nudge: Improving decisions about wealth, health and happiness UChannel … more →
Judge This: NYC's Anti-Fattening Drinks Ad Campaign
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Daniel Fincke wrote 1 week ago: Saturday on the subway I was enjoying the above poster, as I have numerous times throughout the seme … more →
New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 3: Hyperbolic Discounting
Glen Whitman wrote 1 week ago: by Glen Whitman New paternalists often rely on the phenomenon of “hyperbolic discounting” to justify … more →
New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 2: How New Paternalism Creates Gradients
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Glen Whitman wrote 1 week ago: by Glen Whitman A key conclusion of the literature on slippery slopes is that they are especially li … more →
New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 1
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Glen Whitman wrote 2 weeks ago: by Glen Whitman As Mario has already announced, we’ve just published a new article, “Lit … more →
Having it Both Ways
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Brad Taylor wrote 2 weeks ago: From p. 396 of Andrew Sinclair, Prohibition: The Era of Excess: Yet the strangest situation of all h … more →
The Best Sentence I Read Today
Brad Taylor wrote 2 weeks ago: When Wheeler publicly praised the insertion of poison into industrial alcohol on the theory that tho … more →
Prohibition Cartoon of the Day
Brad Taylor wrote 2 weeks ago: By Winsor McCay, courtesy of DrugSenseBot. For a few of the victims of contemporary prohibiti … more →
Submissive Dorothy Patterson
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baptistplanet wrote 2 weeks ago: Unsubmissive Dorothy Patterson? The wife of Dr. Paige Patterson, President of Southwestern Theologic … more →
More about Paternalism
Thomas wrote 3 weeks ago: To complement my earlier post, “Beware of Libertarian Paternalists,” I offer the followi … more →
"Taken Over By Fear..." and Quitting the Internet
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mysteryofiniquity wrote 4 weeks ago: There’s a great post on Bitch blogs this month about songstress Lily Allen quitting the intern … more →
Little Brother Is Watching You: New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes
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Mario Rizzo wrote 4 weeks ago: by Mario Rizzo Glen Whitman and I have published another article about the new paternalism – it ap … more →
The Health Care System as a Dysfunctional Family
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AxXiom wrote 1 month ago: Originally published in the Medical Sentinel 1999 by John C. Sonne, MD This article describes how th … more →
Misogyny in the Morning
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mysteryofiniquity wrote 1 month ago: Everyone seems so curious about why the Roman Catholic church would allow Anglican congregations to … more →
