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 ...

How do you spell “oxymoron”? My current favorite candidate is “libertarian paternalism.” That’s the phrase that Richard H. Thaler and Cass Sunstein promulgate as an alternative to socialism in their ...

Nudging people toward better behavior through policy can be effective, but can face resistance if people feel their autonomy is threatened. Nudging people toward better behavior through policy can be ...

In “The New Paternalism” (The Chronicle Review, May 9), Evan R. Goldstein explains the essence of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness, by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R.

One of the hot new ideas in the academy is "libertarian paternalism." Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, authors of the book "Nudge," say the goal is "enlisting the science of choice to make life ...

Barack Obama is a "choice architect" aiming to implement "libertarian paternalism." He might not know that he is; he might embrace the practice without understanding the theory. It is adumbrated in ...

Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein have a well-constructed piece in the LA Times today on what they call “libertarian paternalism.” By no means do I think their argument lacks merit (I really like the ...

To compensate for these tendencies, they argue that governments should engage in "libertarian paternalism"--essentially nudging people to take the "correct" course of action, while giving them the ...

Nudging people toward better behavior through policy can be effective, but can face resistance if people feel their autonomy is threatened. Despite advances in neuroscience and genetics that raise ...