I Don't Have as Much Faith in Government Officials as You Do

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i don't have as much faith in those a government officials benevolence as you do. You're trying to do o. They're doing just what you'd want, their being principaled libertarian and not choosing for people. I think i want to come back to theandyou noe me just respond to that. That is, it's not possible to have less in government officials, particularly the ones we've been dealing with for the last six years. Then i have the there's absolutely nothing in anything i've written that would suggest that i want a governments to do more than they do now,. whyso then? Why what would make you think? I think that?

Richard Thaler of the U. of Chicago Graduate School of Business defends the idea of libertarian paternalism--how government might use the insights of behavioral economics to help citizens make better choices. Host Russ Roberts accepts the premise that individuals make imperfect choices but challenges Thaler on the likelihood that government, in practice, will improve matters. Along the way they discuss the design of Sweden's social security system, organ donations and whether professors at Cornell University are more or less like you and me.