NUDGE VERSUS BOOST: A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A NORMATIVE DIFFERENCE. (23rd August 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- NUDGE VERSUS BOOST: A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A NORMATIVE DIFFERENCE. (23rd August 2018)
- Main Title:
- NUDGE VERSUS BOOST: A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A NORMATIVE DIFFERENCE
- Authors:
- Sims, Andrew
Müller, Thomas Michael - Abstract:
- Abstract: Behavioural public policy (BPP) has come under fire by critics who claim that it is illiberal. Some authors recently suggest that there is a type of BPP – boosting – that is not as vulnerable to this normative critique. Our paper challenges this claim: there's no non-circular way to draw the distinction between nudge and boost that would make the normative difference required to infer the permissibility of a policy intervention from its type-membership. We consider two strategies: paradigmatic examples and causal mechanisms. We conclude by sketching some suggestions about the right way to approach the normative issues.
- Is Part Of:
- Economics and philosophy. Volume 35:Number 2(2019)
- Journal:
- Economics and philosophy
- Issue:
- Volume 35:Number 2(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 35, Issue 2 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0035-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 195
- Page End:
- 222
- Publication Date:
- 2018-08-23
- Subjects:
- behavioural public policy, -- autonomy, -- libertarian paternalism, -- nudge, -- bounded rationality
Economics -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
330.01 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EAP ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0266267118000196 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0266-2671
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- Legaldeposit
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