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The Demise of the Unitary Individual -- $t1. Political Organization and the Conception of Man -- $t2. The Challenge to the Unitary Individual in Western Thought -- $t3. Economics: The Last Bastion of Rationality -- $t4. Economics Goes Behavioral -- $t5. From Utility to Happiness -- $tPart II. The Rise of Paternalism -- $tIntroduction -- $t6. Post-Utilitarianism: Searching for a Collective Soul in the Behavioral Era -- $t7. The Policy Prescriptions of Behavioral Economics -- $t8. The Modern Paternalistic State -- $t9. Responsibility Transfer -- $t10. The Role of Science -- $t11. Markets in a Paternalistic World -- $t12. Where to Go? -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aThe general assumption that social policy should be utilitarian--that society should be organized to yield the greatest level of welfare--leads inexorably to increased government interventions. Historically, however, the science of economics has advocated limits to these interventions for utilitarian reasons and because of the assumption that people know what is best for themselves. But more recently, behavioral economics has focused on biases and inconsistencies in individual behavior. Based on these developments, governments now prescribe the foods we eat, the apartments we rent, and the composition of our financial portfolios. The Tyranny of Utility takes on this rise of paternalism and its dangers for individual freedoms, and examines how developments in economics and the social sciences are leading to greater government intrusion in our private lives. Gilles Saint-Paul posits that the utilitarian foundations of individual freedom promoted by traditional economics are fundamentally flawed. When combined with developments in social science that view the individual as incapable of making rational and responsible choices, utilitarianism seems to logically call for greater governmental intervention in our lives. Arguing that this cannot be defended on purely instrumental grounds, Saint-Paul calls for individual liberty to be restored as a central value in our society. Exploring how behavioral economics is contributing to the excessive rise of paternalistic interventions, The Tyranny of Utility presents a controversial challenge to the prevailing currents in economic and political discourse. 606 $aWelfare economics 606 $aUtilitarianism 606 $aPaternalism 606 $aPublic welfare 610 $aCoasian view. 610 $aFreudianism. 610 $aFriedrich Nietzsche. 610 $aLockean theory. 610 $aMan. 610 $aPareto improvements. 610 $aPigovian taxation. 610 $aPostmodernism. 610 $aaddictive goods. 610 $aautonomy. 610 $abehavioral biases. 610 $abehavioral economics. 610 $abehavioral issues. 610 $abehavioral problems. 610 $acognitive capacity. 610 $acompetitive markets. 610 $aconsistent behavior. 610 $aconsistent self. 610 $adivine order. 610 $aeconomic theory. 610 $aeconomics. 610 $aexternality. 610 $afinancial capacity. 610 $afree markets. 610 $aglobal efficiency. 610 $agovernment control. 610 $agovernment intervention. 610 $agovernment intrusion. 610 $agovernment involvement. 610 $ahappiness. 610 $aincarnations. 610 $aincentives. 610 $aindividual freedom. 610 $aindividual liberty. 610 $aindividual rights. 610 $aindividual welfare. 610 $aindividual well-being. 610 $aindividualistic values. 610 $aintellectual apparatus. 610 $aintellectual safeguard. 610 $alaissez-faire. 610 $alegitimacy of power. 610 $alibertarian paternalism. 610 $alimited government. 610 $alimited liability. 610 $amarket interactions. 610 $amarkets. 610 $amodern paternalism. 610 $aobjective reality. 610 $apaternalism. 610 $apaternalistic governments. 610 $apaternalistic intervention. 610 $apaternalistic interventions. 610 $apaternalistic policies. 610 $apaternalistic state. 610 $apenalties. 610 $apolicy prescriptions. 610 $apolitical economy critique. 610 $apolitical institutions. 610 $apopulation distribution. 610 $apost-utilitarian paradigm. 610 $apost-utilitarianism. 610 $aprice restrictions. 610 $apsychological phenomena. 610 $apublic policy. 610 $arational phenomena. 610 $aresponsibility transfer. 610 $arevealed preferences. 610 $aself-consciousness. 610 $aself-reported happiness. 610 $asin tax. 610 $asocial contract. 610 $asocial engineer. 610 $asocial planner. 610 $asocial preferences. 610 $asocial sciences. 610 $astate involvement. 610 $astatistics. 610 $atransactions. 610 $aunique self. 610 $aunitary individual. 610 $autilitarian social policy. 610 $autilitarian state. 610 $autilitarianism. 610 $autility. 610 $avoluntary transactions. 610 $awelfare. 615 0$aWelfare economics. 615 0$aUtilitarianism. 615 0$aPaternalism. 615 0$aPublic welfare. 676 $a330.12 700 $aSaint-Paul$b Gilles$0140788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815407903321 996 $aThe tyranny of utility$93920352 997 $aUNINA