Where government competes with the private sector, some service improvements (e.g., a better government cafeteria to attract employees) would happen anyway through market forces, so Thaler's libertarian paternalism is really just giving the government consulting advice and is poorly labeled.

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Pietro Pogicordini

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Maybe libertarian paternalism is indeed an oxymoron.

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Virginia Postrel on Style 11/27/2006EconTalk
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