Reply To: Political Statements
I’m not a pure libertarian. See my previous comments on this.
Also, I’m reading a book right now called Nudge, which promotes the idea of “libertarian paternalism.” The authors note that businesses in a free market often exploit human weaknesses to make a buck (surprise!), so it would be helpful to provide guidance to consumers by way of “nudges” – especially regarding complex, important decisions like health care and investing, where the average person can’t make much sense out of the plethora of choices offered by the market. Not limiting choices, not banning anything, just leading folks to the decision that they would probably like to make for themselves if they had access to all the information about how choices would affect them. Interesting ideas about how we can do good without necessarily legislating and regulating.