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Eating sugary food, drinking alcohol and smoking are legal. But politicians still use laws to discourage them. What can justify such paternalism? 'Killjoys' reviews the justifications that have been offered: from the idea that people are irrational to the idea that they are compelled by advertising to harm themselves.

Killjoys A Critique of Paternalism

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      Publisher Institute of Economic Affairs
      Published 10 November 2017
      ISBN-13 9780255367493
      978-0255367493
      ISBN-10 025536749X

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      Book Synopsis
      Eating sugary food, drinking alcohol and smoking are legal. But politicians still use laws to discourage them. What can justify such paternalism? 'Killjoys' reviews the justifications that have been offered: from the idea that people are irrational to the idea that they are compelled by advertising to harm themselves.

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