"Escaping Paternalism" Book Panel

On this episode of the Hayek Program Podcast, we'll listen in on an exciting book panel discussion of "Escaping Paternalism: Rationality, Behavioral Economics, and Public Policy." Written by Mario Rizzo (Associate Professor of Economics at New York Univeristy) and Glen Whitman (Professor of Economics at California State University, Northridge), the book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Peter Boettke moderates the panel as Rizzo and Whitman are joined by two panelists — Sandra Peart, Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at Richmond University, and Bart Wilson, the Donald P. Kennedy Endowed Chair in Economics and Law at Chapman University.

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The Hayek Program Podcast includes audio from lectures, interviews, and discussions of scholars and visitors from the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. The F. A. Hayek Program is devoted to the promotion of teaching and research on the institutional arrangements that are suitable for the support of free and prosperous societies. Implicit in this statement is the presumption that those arrangements are to some extent open to conscious selection, as well as the appreciation that the type of arrangements that are selected within a society can influence significantly the economic, political, and moral character of that society.