Liberalism Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/liberalism/ Independent research and policy analysis on fiscal, monetary, and regulatory issues in Europe Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:20:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://en.irefeurope.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2026/04/IREF-LinkedIn-Profile-DarkBlue-scaled.png Liberalism Archives - IREF Europe https://en.irefeurope.org/tag/liberalism/ 32 32 From Libertarian Paternalism to AI-Powered Nudging: New Challenges for Freedom https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/from-libertarian-paternalism-to-ai-powered-nudging-new-challenges-for-freedom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=from-libertarian-paternalism-to-ai-powered-nudging-new-challenges-for-freedom https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/from-libertarian-paternalism-to-ai-powered-nudging-new-challenges-for-freedom/#respond Sun, 18 May 2025 14:12:11 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=35877 WP 2025-05. Executive Summary The temptation to rely on findings from behavioral economics to condition human behavior has given rise to libertarian paternalism, an approach to public policy design that…

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]]> https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/from-libertarian-paternalism-to-ai-powered-nudging-new-challenges-for-freedom/feed/ 0 A Matter of Trust: The Lockean Minimal State and its New Foe https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/a-matter-of-trust-the-lockean-minimal-state-and-its-new-foe/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-matter-of-trust-the-lockean-minimal-state-and-its-new-foe https://en.irefeurope.org/publications/working-paper-series/article/a-matter-of-trust-the-lockean-minimal-state-and-its-new-foe/#respond Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:55:07 +0000 https://en.irefeurope.org/?p=35180 WP 2023-04. Executive Summary Among libertarians, it has been conventional to define the minimal state as a state that enforces contracts and employs coercion to prevent force and fraud only.…

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