Word: paternalisme
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Consider the silver Volvo 940 station wagon, getting on in years and miles, but not yet spent. At certain moments—full of folks, lacing homeward through more or less verdant New England highlands—it seems almost joyful, purring the meaningful purr of a world-weary cat...
But this paternalism implies too great a concern with the undergraduate salesmen, and insufficient regard for the undergraduate purchaser. Monopolies rarely care for their customers’ needs too well, and free competition here will benefit the buyer. Where demand is large, in laundry service for example, competing agencies should...
Three weeks ago, the Joint Subcommittee of the Committees on College Life and House Life issued a working draft of a report concerning student organization event management. While this draft is not final, it lays out some important changes regarding the process of hosting large-scale social events in the...
The ban on plastic bags was passed in March 2007 in order to stop consumers from making the wrong choice for the environment. But those responsible for the ban didn’t seem to quite understand what that meant: “We’re not taking away...
Thaler and Sunstein, longtime colleagues and friends, dub this "libertarian paternalism." The deliberate oxymoron is meant to exalt individual freedom (the authors use their system to explain how one might structure school vouchers or privatize Social Security) while protecting people from cognitive and social forces that lead them to decisions...