Escaping Paternalism Book Club

If you haven’t heard of Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman‘s Escaping Paternalism, you should.  The book is an unbelievably learned, thoughtful, fair, wise, and inspired critique of applied behavioral economics in general and libertarian paternalism (a.k.a. “nudge“) in particular.

The book is not light reading.  While Rizzo and Whitman patiently introduce readers to key research and concepts in behavioral economics as they go, specialists are their target audience.  The upshot: this is a perfect oppor...