Challenge for the Nudgers
Posted in Education, Paternalism, You Can't Have it Both Ways on Jun 16th, 2010
I do not believe that it is possible to be both a paternalist (libertarian or otherwise) and also be a strong advocate of government schooling. The argument that Thaler and Sunstein make in their book Nudge is that many individuals make bad decisions when left to their own devices because they are short-sighted, ill-informed, undisciplined, […]
