The latest findings in the field of behavioural economics suggest that consumers often make seemingly irrational choices that decrease their welfare. A crucial question for policy-makers is whether paternalistic laws designed to protect consumers from making these ‘poor' choices are ever...

In this article the author outlines some difficulties facing the cyber-shopper. These include the practical difficulties of enforcement and redress which arise when a cyber-shopper purchases a defective product from an overseas supplier, or when misleading information is placed on the internet...