Mises Daily
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Gary Galles
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Libertarian Paternalism. It would appear to be a contradiction in terms. But Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein argue for just such a thing in Nudge (Yale University Press, 2008). They try to combine the two by arguing that a nudge — “any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any