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...Steven G. Medema The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism . By Saint-Paul Gilles . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2011 . vii ; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Book Reviews Henry...

... as a paternalistic intervention by the state. I suggest that the accusation of paternalism should not come as a surprise once the “domestic” elements in Musgrave’s conceptualization of the public sector are highlighted. I develop three points of the analogy in Musgrave’s public household which echo recurring...

.... History of Political Economy 21:1 0 1989 by Duke University Press CCC 00 18-2702/89/$1 .SO Adam Smith and the paternity of the Real Bills doctrine Morris Perlman Lloyd Mints (1945) in his classic work...

... of paternity.’ To become associated with the birth of an intellectual disci- pline which later proves to flourish and engender further offspring is, of course, one of the premier rewards of science; for many, in and of itself that is sufficient justification for the activities...

...—emerged Scrope’s non-Christian moral theory of the reciprocal in- terest of the rich and the poor, built around a positive defense of the role of capital in alleviating poverty. This theory allowed Scrope to fully integrate an organic paternalism and a utilitarian discourse of rights and duties...

... makes between Ruskin’s writings and the Greeks,as Ruskin was indebted to Plato’s philosophy and to Xenophon’s economics of household and military management. Ruskin’s work is more coherent once it is clear that his vision is one of an economy that should operate on the same principles of paternalism...

.... The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism. By Gilles Saint-Paul. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. vii; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50. The Tyranny of Utility is at once history of (recent) economics, economic methodol- ogy, political theory, and polemic...

... and the Meaning of Life. London: Pimlico. Koch, Eric. 1980. Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder. Toronto: Methuen. The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism. By Gilles Saint-Paul. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. vii; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50. The Tyranny...

.... The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism. By Gilles Saint-Paul. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. vii; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50. The Tyranny of Utility is at once history of (recent) economics, economic methodol- ogy, political theory, and polemic...

... and the Meaning of Life. London: Pimlico. Koch, Eric. 1980. Deemed Suspect: A Wartime Blunder. Toronto: Methuen. The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism. By Gilles Saint-Paul. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. vii; 163 pp. Cloth $39.50. The Tyranny...

... hap- piness at the risk . . . of undermining the fabric of society” (p. 192). In general, the claim that liberal efforts to correct social ills through public policy have led to a paternalism which destroys individual virtue presupposes no equivalent loss of virtue arising from unemployment...

... of individuals to maximize their own welfare and was more sanguine about the role of government. As he wrote in his own Principles of Political Economy (1887, 425), So far as any . . . legislation is avowedly “paternal” it is clearly opposed to the fundamental assumption—on which . . . the economic...

... no faith in slave owners’ claims of paternalism. While allowing the existence of a few benign masters, they denied that plantation society rested on paternalistic relations. Especially in the West Indies, slavery had been built in a ruthlessly competitive market environment. In that world greed...

...] community I came from and the woman from the Assembly of First Nations gave me an expense form for reimbursement. I could have told an equally true story that would have bewildered the Health Canada folks: my mother’s paternal family arrived in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, in 1750. Her family came from...

..., The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism (Steven G. Medema)  755 Gault, The Quirky Dr Fay: A Remarkable Life (D. E. Moggridge)  356 Howson, Lionel Robbins (Denis O’Brien)  358 de Vivo, ed., Il Tableau économique di François Quesnay (Alessandro Roncaglia) 559...

... as they bear on “addictive” choices. Recent publications include “New on Paternalism and Public Policy” (Economics and Philosophy, 2000) and “An Economic Theory of Cigarette Addiction” (Journal of Health Economics, January 1999), both written with Robert Goldfarb and Steve Suranovic. Stephen J. Meardon...

....1o Jevons then proceeds to give an example, representing a blend of paternalism and externalities, with regard to slum clearance and public housing: I am quite convinced, for instance, that the great mass of the people will not have healthy houses by the ordinary action...

... and putting a stop to human estrangement, humans would be made sociable again, restoring the context of community and fellowship. Whether through state ownership and paternalism or self-governing cooperatives and communes, the socialist future is given shape by removing barriers of privilege and greed...

..., a neoclassical economist ahead of his time. The Sraffians recoiled from the idea of a neoclassical Ricardo; Hollander scorned the idea of Ricardo-as-Sraffian. Now Peach, stepping into the middle of what he calls a “bitterly contested paternity suit” over Ricardo (303), argues for denying custody to both...

... was indebted to Plato’s philosophy and to Xenophon’s economics of household and military management. Ruskin’s work is more coherent once it is clear that his vision is one of an economy that should operate on the same principles of paternalism with which a household is managed. Ruskin describes himself...