Evolutionary economics and the case for a constitutional libertarian paternalism—a comment on Martin Binder, “should evolutionary economists embrace libertarian paternalism?”

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1107-1113

  Schubert, Christian ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constitutional Economics; Libertarian Paternalism; Nudges

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911390699     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: 14321386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-014-0379-z     Document Type: Article

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