Mario J. Rizzo

New York University

Professor of Economics

Department of Economics

19 W, 4th Street

New York, NY 10012

United States

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Little Brother is Watching You: New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes

NYU Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-12, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-15
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 18 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2009
Mario J. Rizzo and Douglas Glen Whitman
New York University and California State University, Northridge - Department of Economics
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Paternalist Slopes

NYU Journal of Law & Liberty, Forthcoming, NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 07-08
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Feb 2007
Douglas Glen Whitman and Mario J. Rizzo
California State University, Northridge - Department of Economics and New York University
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paternalism, slippery slopes, behavioral economics

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Rationality – What? Misconceptions of Neoclassical and Behavioral Economics

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2017
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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Irrationality, Biases, Ecological Rationality, Welfare

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The Knowledge Problem of New Paternalism

NYU Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-60
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 03 Dec 2008
Mario J. Rizzo and Douglas Glen Whitman
New York University and California State University, Northridge - Department of Economics
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The Camel's Nose is in the Tent: Rules, Theories and Slippery Slopes

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 05 Feb 2003
Mario J. Rizzo and Douglas Glen Whitman
New York University and California State University, Northridge - Department of Economics
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slippery slope arguments, structure of discussion (argument), rules, unintended consequences

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Austrian Perspectives in Law and Economics

Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2017
Shruti Rajagopalan and Mario J. Rizzo
Classical Liberal Institute, NYU School of Law and New York University
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The Problem of Moral Dirigisme: A New Argument Against Moralistic Legislation

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 17 Feb 2005
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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Behavioral Economics and Deficient Willpower: Searching for Akrasia

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Feb 2016
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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weakness of will, willpower, bounded rationality, irrationality, new paternalism, behavioral economics

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The Problematic Welfare Standards of Behavioral Paternalism

Review of Philosophy and Psychology, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Feb 2015
Douglas Glen Whitman and Mario J. Rizzo
California State University, Northridge - Department of Economics and New York University
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behavioral economics, rationality, paternalism, transitivity, completeness

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Abstract Morality for an Abstract Order

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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spontaneous order, emergence, complexity, contract, ethics, Hayek, Spencer

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F.A. Hayek and the Rationality of Individual Choice

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 22 Jun 2015 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2019
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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Hayek, Sensory Order, Pure Logic of Choice

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Old Chicago Against Static Welfare Economics

Journal of Legal Studies (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 28 Jun 2019
Malte F. Dold and Mario J. Rizzo
Pomona College - Department of Economics and New York University
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Frank Knight, James Buchanan, behavioral welfare theory

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The Impartial Spectator and the Strictness of Rules

Forthcoming in Adam Smith Review, 2021
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Oct 2020
Mario J. Rizzo
New York University
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Smith, strictness, rules, impartial