Economics of paternalism: the hidden costs of self-commanding strategies

The paper proposes an economic assessment of paternalism by comparing different alternative responses to dynamically inconsistent behaviors consecutive to hyperbolic discounting. Two main types of action are possible, self-commanding strategies and paternalism The first category includes personal ru...

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Main Author: Christophe Salvat
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Rosetti Internaţional 2015-11-01
Series:Journal of Philosophical Economics
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Online Access: http://jpe.ro/pdf.php?id=7306