Putting Economists in Their Place

That’s one of the most enjoyable duties of teaching political science. The link is to my response to a thoroughly libertarian critique—rooted in the freedom to err—of the ‘libertarian paternalism” of “behavioral economics.” It also leads you to the Liberty Fund LAW AND LIBERTY website—which is, thanks to our friend Richard Reinsch, really good and surprisingly fair and balanced.

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