On the possibility of an anti-paternalist behavioural welfare economics

Journal of Economic Methodology 28 (4):350-363 (2021)
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Behavioural economics has taught us that human agents don't always display consistent, context-independent and stable preferences in their choice behaviour. Can we nevertheless do welfare economics...

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