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Robert Sugden, « Gilles Saint-Paul, The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism », Œconomia, ID : 10.4000/oeconomia.1600
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The Tyranny of Utility may seem a rather mysterious title, but the subtitle makes clear what Gilles Saint-Paul means by it. His thesis is that a combination of utilitarian philosophy and behavioural social science—specifically, behavioural economics and cognitive psychology—is being used to legitimise paternalistic interventions in individuals’ private affairs, and that this is a path that leads to tyranny. His opponents are the advocates of “the new paternalist state” (4). On the jacket, Dei...