Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism

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Autor(a) principal: Muramatsu,Roberta
Data de Publicação: 2012
Outros Autores: Fonseca,Patrícia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Economia Política
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572012000300006
Resumo: Behavioral economics has addressed interesting positive and normative questions underlying the standard rational choice theory. More recently, it suggests that, in a real world of boundedly rational agents, economists could help people to improve the quality of their choices without any harm to autonomy and freedom of choice. This paper aims to scrutinize available arguments for and against current proposals of light paternalistic interventions mainly in the domain of intertemporal choice. It argues that incorporating the notion of bounded rationality in economic analysis and empirical findings of cognitive biases and self-control problems cannot make an indisputable case for paternalism.
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title Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
spellingShingle Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
Muramatsu,Roberta
freedom
choice
bounded rationality
paternalism
behavioral economics
title_short Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
title_full Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
title_fullStr Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
title_full_unstemmed Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
title_sort Freedom of choice and bounded rationality: a brief appraisal of behavioral economists' plea for light paternalism
author Muramatsu,Roberta
author_facet Muramatsu,Roberta
Fonseca,Patrícia
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author2 Fonseca,Patrícia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Muramatsu,Roberta
Fonseca,Patrícia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv freedom
choice
bounded rationality
paternalism
behavioral economics
topic freedom
choice
bounded rationality
paternalism
behavioral economics
description Behavioral economics has addressed interesting positive and normative questions underlying the standard rational choice theory. More recently, it suggests that, in a real world of boundedly rational agents, economists could help people to improve the quality of their choices without any harm to autonomy and freedom of choice. This paper aims to scrutinize available arguments for and against current proposals of light paternalistic interventions mainly in the domain of intertemporal choice. It argues that incorporating the notion of bounded rationality in economic analysis and empirical findings of cognitive biases and self-control problems cannot make an indisputable case for paternalism.
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