Contents
Preface
PART I: VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE

1. Paternalism and Perfectionism
Interfering with Individual Choice
Paternalism and Perfectionism
Hard and Soft Paternalism
Private and Social Perfectionism
2. Hierarchic Paternalism
Children
The Mentally Incapable
Slaves
Women
3. Cognitive Paternalism
Heuristics, Instincts, Emotions
Judgment Biases
The Counter-Revolution in Cognitive Psychology
A. Design Flaws
B. Indeterminacy
C. Ecological Rationality
D. The Paternalist's Biases
Conclusion

4. Akrasia
Varieties of Akrasia
A. Overpowering Passions
B. Addiction
C. Self-deception
D. The Divided Self
E. Reversal of Preferences
F. Hyperbolic Discounting
Does Akrasia Exist?
Does Akrasia Argue for Paternalism?
Conclusion
5. Information Costs
Screening and Unfair Bargains
Search Costs and Constrained Choice
Oversignaling
6. Happiness
Empirical Studies
The Hedonic Treadmill
Relative Preferences
Does This Argue for Paternalism?
What's so Good about Happiness?
Conclusion

7. Endogenous Preferences
Expressive Effects
How Default Rules Shape Choices
Libertarian Paternalism
The Bully Pulpit
PART II: PERFECTIONISM

8. Private Perfectionism
Perfectionism
Neutralism
Neutralism: For and Against
Liberal Perfectionists
Conservative Neutralists

9. Social Perfectionism
Coasian Bargains
Moral Externalities
The Harm-to-Others Principle
The Disintegration Thesis
The Duty of Respect and Public Reasons
10. An Extension: Nationalism
Liberal Nationalism
Objections to Liberal Nationalism
Fostering Nationalism
The Bill of Rights
11. Conclusion
12. Index