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Taxation and Economic Incentives on Health-Related Commodities: Alcohol, Tobacco and Food
Alemanno, Alberto; Sassi, Franco - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the economic, legal and public policy rationales for the application of taxes and other fiscal measures on health-related commodities. The motivation for such taxes has been more often linked to the fiscal revenues generated than to their potential...
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Why incoherent preferences do not justify paternalism
Sugden, Robert - In: Constitutional Political Economy 19 (2008) 3, pp. 226-248
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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists’ assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570846
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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists’ assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010714017
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Liberty and the post-utilitarian society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2012
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists’ assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717579
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Liberty and the Post-Utilitarian Society
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Utilitarian foundations for limited government are shaky insofar as they assume rational and consistent individuals. Recently economists' assumption of rational actors has come under sustained attack. Behavioural economics has suggested that people are plagued by irrational biases and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079233
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Rethinking Nudges
Mongin, Philippe; Cozic, Mikaël - HEC Paris (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2014
the shortcut of arguing that Thaler and Sunstein lose their best defence of libertarian paternalism after the nudge …Nudge is a semantically multifarious concept that originates in Thaler and Sunstein's (2008) popular eponymous book. In … centres on the interrelations, both semantic and factual, of these three nudge concepts. It argues that the first and second …
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From intention to action: Can nudges help consumers to choose renewable energy?
Momsen, Katharina; Stoerk, Thomas - In: Energy Policy 74 (2014) C, pp. 376-382
find that only a default nudge has a significant effect, while all other nudges prove ineffective. In our setting, a … default nudge increases the share of individuals who choose renewable energy by 44.6%. …
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Behavioral Public Economics: Welfare and Policy Analysis with Non-Standard Decision-Makers
Bernheim, B. Douglas; Rangel, Antonio - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2005
This paper has two goals. First, we discuss several emerging approaches to applied welfare analysis under non-standard (“behavioral”) assumptions concerning consumer choice. This provides a foundation for Behavioral Public Economics. Second, we illustrate applications of these approaches by...
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Behavioral Political Economy: A Survey
Schnellenbach, Jan; Schubert, Christian - CESifo - 2014
Explaining individual behavior in politics should rely on the same motivational assumptions as explaining behavior in the market: That’s what Political Economy, understood as the application of economics to the study of political processes, is all about. In its standard variant, those who...
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