Abstract Nudge advocates contend that nudges are liberty preserving, while government regulations not. We interrogate assumption by considering negative in the forms suggested proponents of nudges. Specifically, we examine three ways measuring – as freedom choice, absence coercion and interference applying measures to a case study relevant nudge literature: governing healthy food manufacture. s...

Cross-domain identity management is gaining significant interest in industry. A recent example is the Liberty Alliance’s specifications for single signon of users across a federation of enterprises. These specifications stress that the federation process is voluntary for the users and that privacy is preserved, e.g., by using pseudonyms. We evaluate the privacy of these specifications in detail...

this paper compares the thought of miff and mutahhari, particuiar/y their vie1vs of moral education, higher sentiments, and their common values. itfurthermore argues that miff and mutahhari both provide a strong basis for a critique of the consumerivation of culture, ivhich often happens in a giobaiized econ