The Construction of Preference: Libertarian Paternalism Is Not an Oxymoron

By Cass R. Sunstein, Richard H. Thaler. 2006

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The Community of Advantage (2018, background): “The second strand is a critique of ‘behavioural welfare economics’ – the approach to normative analysis that was proposed by Camerer et al. (2003) and Sunstein and Thaler (2003), and which is now favoured by most behavioural economists.”
I’ll have the ice cream soon and the vegetables later: A study of online grocery purchases and order lead time (2010, neutral): “By changing the decision context, policy-makers can increase the likelihood that people will make ‘better’ choices without infringing upon their freedom (Sunstein and Thaler 2003).”
Goals and plans in decision making (2007, background): “In the preceding, we have emphasized consumer education partly in the spirit of libertarian paternalism (Sunstein and Thaler 2003) and partly in the pragmatic be-”
Exploiting Naïvete about Self-Control in the Credit Market (2010, background): “But in the spirit of “libertarian” paternalism’s (Sunstein and Thaler 2003) respect for individual liberty, we can formulate another criterion for interventions: that they should be acceptable to consumers.”
A Review of Nudges: Definitions, Justifications, Effectiveness (2020, neutral): “First, nudges steer choices in directions that decision-makers themselves would pursue if they were “rational” or, at least, “had complete information, unlimited cognitive abilities, and no lack of self-control” (Sunstein & Thaler, 2003, p. 1162).”