Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals' decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

Bei dem vorliegenden Text handelt es sich um eine überarbeitete Version meiner Magisterarbeit, die ich im Jahre 2011 am Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) angefertigt und an der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen eingereicht habe. Im...

Do people give primacy to merit when luck partly determines earnings? This paper reports from a novel experiment where third-party spectators have to decide whether to redistribute from a high-earner to a low-earner in cases where earnings are determined by luck and merit. The experiment has...