Killjoys : A Critique of Paternalism.

Intro -- _GoBack -- The author -- Foreword -- 1 Paternalism and liberalism -- The liberal view -- 2 The classical economist's view -- 3 Soft paternalism and nudge theory -- 4 Coercive paternalism -- The mirage of universal goals -- Slippery slopes and runaway trains -- The tyranny of the majority -- 5 Neo-paternalism: an assessment -- Searching for the 'true' self -- 6 'Public health' paternalism -- The logic of 'public health' -- Public health versus 'public health' -- Consent -- Risk -- 7 The politics of 'public health' paternalism -- Industry as an agent of harm -- Negative externalities -- Advertising -- Children and addiction -- Asymmetric information and health warnings -- Summary: 'public health' as hard paternalism -- 8 The consequences of hard paternalism -- Higher costs for consumers -- Loss of consumer surplus -- Substitution effects -- The black market -- Stigmatisation -- Poorer health -- External costs -- 9 Towards better regulation -- Reducing a person's enjoyment is a cost -- Perfection is neither possible nor desirable -- Changing the costs and benefits is cheating -- Influence is not coercion -- Education and labelling -- Taxation -- Pricing -- Controls on sale -- Advertising -- Teach economics -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- About the IEA.

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