If one accepts some paternalistic objectives, how should this shape policy? This paper addresses this issue by considering the trade-off that results when agents have superior information regarding their own situation and tastes but a paternalistic principal views agents’ tastes as as being biased. Applications include: savings behavior by hyperbolic discounting consumers, schooling choice by t...

Aim. The aim of this study is to analyze and evaluate two versions the theory liberalism which emerged within philosophical tradition pragmatism: Richard Rorty’s “ironic liberalism” John Dewey’s “renascent liberalism”.
 Methods. based on: 1) comparative analysis, shows differences points contact between classical pragmatism neo-pragmatism, in particular, different their liberal theories; 2...

Work requirements in means-tested transfer programs have grown in importance in the U.S. and in some other countries. The theoretical literature which considers their possible optimality generally operates within a traditional welfarist framework where some function of the utility of the poor is maximized. Here we consider a case where society is paternalistic and instead has preferences over t...

this paper is aimed to review the concepts of legitimacy and its relation to effectiveness of clergy in iran . combination of religion and politics could increase interventionism in public policy and increase expectations for welfare interventionism. this phenomena could link spiritual legitimacy of clergy to its effectiveness. somewhat vast interpretation of “ the unity of religion and politic...

1 Introduction My concern in this chapter is the place of autonomy within liberalism, understood as a public morality.

taylor argues that procedural liberalism is not viable, or is insensitive to the conditions of social and political possibility, since it cannot justify the political furtherance of common goods. this is because the ontology and epistemology behind it disregard the “transcendental conditions” of human identity and the “dialogical” way of its formation. taylor’s own version of liberalism, on the...

Sen’s classic social choice result supposedly demonstrates a conflict between Pareto and even minimal forms of liberalism. By providing the first direct mathematical proof of this seminal result, we underscore a significantly different interpretation: rather than conflicts among rights, Sen’s result occurs because the liberalism assumption negates the assumption that voters have transitive pref...

Abstract The prohibition and prosecution of core international crimes are understood as a liberal response to particularly cruel acts that shock the conscience humanity. But what is nature this cruelty how does it relate liberalism? Rather than seeing liberalism monolithic, we examine different relationships between logics they manifest in processes criminalization. We develop three-pronged typ...