What Dan Ariely thinks about libertarianism

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Behavioral economist and Duke University psychology professor; James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics and founding director of the Center for Advanced Hindsight; author of Predictably Irrational.

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1. 17 Sept 2026

   Our readingSmall, reversible, learnable decisions between equally informed sides should be left to people, with no paternalism

   Their wordsSmall decision? Reversible? Easy to learn from? Both sides equally informed? Then leave people alone — that is exactly the territory where freedom to make our own mistakes is how we learn, and where paternalism has no business.

   ↗When Is It OK to Decide for Other People?danariely.com 3rd of 3 in this piece