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The law, economics, and psychology of manipulation

June 15, 2015 Eric Posner

You probably didn’t know there was a law against manipulation. But I argue that you can find an anti-manipulation principle buried in the common law. I make this argument in a comment on Cass Sunstein’s paper Fifty Shades of Manipulation, his defense of libertarian paternalism against critics who argue that libertarian paternalism is “manipulative.”

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