PATRONISING PATERNALISM
探讨了当代西方经济学中自由选择作为决策基准的假设，并从福利提升和个人自由角度分析了家长主义政策的合理性。
Few economists appear to be able to contemplate a rational basis for government paternalism. This paper considers the basis for the presumption, which permeates contemporary Western economics, that free choice provides a benchmark by which other decision processes should be judged. In the light of the potential obstacles to idealized free choice, the case for paternalistic policy is considered in terms both of an instrumentalist pursuit of welfare gains and of the consequences of paternalism for individual freedom. Copyright 1993 by Royal Economic Society.