Schnellenbach, Jan - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 2, pp. 266-277
This paper discusses soft (or libertarian) paternalism, as proposed among others by Thaler and Sunstein (2008). It is argued that soft paternalism should not be understood as an efficiency-enhancing, but as a redistributive concept. The relationship between soft paternalism and social norms is...