The nanny state is in the news. A lot of people have been outraged by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s effort to restrict soda sizes, recently overturned by a state court, and some people do not much like ...

In an op-ed in The New York Times titled "Three Cheers for the Nanny State," Sarah Conly, a philosophy professor at Bowdown College and author of Against Autonomy, dismisses principled concerns about ...

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Part of the aim of these essays is to engage with topics that may be challenging, reflecting the importance of having difficult conversations that advance progress. If we find that nothing we say ...

Should government "nudge" citizens to do what is in their self-interest? In his latest column, David Brooks runs through the arguments for and against "libertarian paternalism," summing them up as ...

Brink Lindsay has a piece on why he opposes a universal basic income that has gotten a lot of attention. His argument draws on paternalism and behavioral economics style arguments about how welfare ...

In the dynamic landscape of decentralized finance (DeFi), risk management is the bedrock upon which sustainable lending protocols are built. The challenge lies in finding the delicate balance between ...

Recent works by longtime intellectual antagonists Cass Sunstein (author of "Too Much Information") and Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman (authors of "Escaping Paternalism") have a surprising amount of ...