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The burgeoning field of behavioral economics has produced a new set of justifications for paternalism. This book challenges behavioral paternalism on multiple levels, from the abstract and conceptual to the pragmatic and applied. Behavioral paternalism relies on a needlessly restrictive definition of rational behavior. It neglects nonstandard preferences, experimentation, and self-discovery. It relies on behavioral research that is often incomplete and unreliable. It demands a level of knowledge from policymakers that they cannot reasonably obtain. It assumes a political process largely immune to the effects of ignorance, irrationality, and the influence of special interests and moralists. Overall, behavioral paternalism underestimates the capacity of people to solve their own problems, while overestimating the ability of experts and policymakers to design beneficial interventions. The authors argue instead for a more inclusive theory of rationality in economic policymaking.

Economics --- Rational choice theory. --- Paternalism --- Parentalism --- Social classes --- Social control --- Social systems --- Social choice --- Behavioral economics --- Behavioural economics --- Psychological aspects. --- Economic aspects.

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Social systems --- System theory --- Systèmes sociaux --- Systèmes, Théorie des --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie. --- Parsons, Talcott, --- Luhmann, Niklas, --- Parsons, Talcott --- Luhmann, Niklas

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In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the daily lives of billions of people worldwide. At the same time, the current economic model and consumerist lifestyle needs to be radically transformed if society is to overcome the challenges humanity is facing on a finite planet. Can the much-discussed disruption potential of digitalization be harnessed for this purpose? Smart Green World? provides guiding principles for a sustainable digital society and develops numerous hands-on proposals for how digitalization can be shaped to become a driving force for social transformation. For instance, the authors explain why more digitalization is needed to realize the transition towards 100% renewable energy and show how this can be achieved without sacrificing privacy. Theyanalyze howthe information revolution can transform consumption patterns, mobility habits and industry structures - instead of fostering the consumption of unneeded stuff due to personalized commercials and the acceleration of life. The authors reveal how Artificial Intelligence and the Industrial Internet of Things pose novel environmental challenges and contribute to a polarization of income; but they also demonstrate how the internet can be restored to its status as a commons, with users taking priority and society at large reaping the benefits of technological change in a most democratic way. Providing a comprehensive and practical assessment of both social and environmental opportunities and challenges of digitalization, Smart Green World? Making Digitalization Work for Sustainability will be of great interest to all those studying the complex interrelationship of the twenty-first-century megatrends of digitalization and decarbonization.

Technology --- Social systems --- Sustainable development. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Societal growth --- Progress --- Social evolution --- Social stability --- Social structure --- Social aspects. --- Growth. --- Environmental aspects --- Technological innovations.

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Functional analysis. --- Functionalism (Social sciences) --- Behavior therapy --- Children with mental disabilities --- Neuropsychological Tests. --- Methodology. --- Methods. --- Behavior modification. --- AX-CPT --- Behavioral Assessment of Dysexecutive Syndrome --- CANTAB --- Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery --- Clock Test --- Cognitive Function Scanner --- Continuous Performance Task --- Controlled Oral Word Association Test --- Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System --- Developmental Neuropsychological Assessment --- Hooper Visual Organization Test --- NEPSY --- Neuropsychologic Tests --- Neuropsychological Test --- Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test --- Repeatable Battery for the Assessment of Neuropsychological Status --- Rey-Osterrieth Complex Figure --- Symbol Digit Modalities Test --- Test of Everyday Attention --- Test, Neuropsychological --- Tests, Neuropsychological --- Tower of London Test --- Aphasia Tests --- Memory for Designs Test --- Neuropsychologic Test --- Behavior modification --- Behavioral therapy --- Psychotherapy --- Functional analysis (Social sciences) --- Structural-functional analysis (Social sciences) --- Ethnology --- Social sciences --- Social systems --- Philosophy --- Cognitive Test --- Cognitive Testing --- Cognitive Tests --- Neuropsychological Testing --- Test, Cognitive --- Testing, Cognitive --- Testing, Neuropsychological --- Tests, Cognitive

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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions. .

World politics. --- Ethnology. --- Archaeology. --- Political theory. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- World history. --- Political History. --- Social Anthropology. --- Political Theory. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- World History, Global and Transnational History. --- Universal history --- History --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Anthropology --- Social institutions --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Archeology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Antiquities --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Human beings --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Social institutions. --- Social evolution. --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Institutions, Social --- Social systems --- Social structure