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The tyranny of utility : behavioral social science and the rise of paternalism / Gilles Saint-Paul.

Author: Saint-Paul, Gilles.

Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2011.

Descriptionvii, 163 p. ; 24 cm.

Note: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?

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Saint-Paul, Gilles.
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