Escaping Paternalism Book Club: Part 5

Summary

When you begin the final chapter of Escaping Paternalism, Rizzo and Whitman (RW) seem ready to rest their case.  They neatly recap their nested argumentative strategy:

We began this book with an extended critique of the neoclassical model of rationality, which behavioral economists have rejected as a positive model of human behavior but nevertheless have accepted as a normative standard…

The rest of the book could easily be read as a series of “even if” arguments: even if we accept neocl...