In this article, we systematically review the literature on the ethics of nudging. Since the
publication of the book Nudge by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein in 2008, a rich literature …

Withholding and withdrawing treatment are widely regarded as ethically equivalent in
medical guidelines and ethics literature. Health care personnel, however, widely perceive …

The nudge approach seeks to improve people's decisions through small changes in their
choice environments. Nudge policies often work through psychological mechanisms that …

We conduct a randomized field experiment to quantify biases that affect consumers of
addictive goods: present-biased preferences, naïve beliefs regarding present bias, and …

Nudging is a tool of libertarian paternalism. It involves making use of certain psychological
tendencies in order to help people make better decisions without restricting their freedom …

The debate for and against making e-cigarettes available to smokers is to a large extent
empirical. We do not know the long-term health effects of vaping and we do not know how …

Freedom is one of the central values in political and moral philosophy. A number of theorists
hold that freedom (or, relatedly, opportunity) should either be the only or at least one of the …

The idea of a 'tobacco-free generation'promises to make smoking a thing of the past by
making cigarettes unavailable to birth cohorts in the future. If implemented, such a …

Behavioral policies, such as nudges and boosts, are gaining prominence. Such policies are
advertised as evidential public policies. Yet, they have significant evidential problems. I …

Liberal neutrality compels governments to respect individual preferences. Yet health-
promotion campaigns, such as modern tobacco control policies, often seek to cultivate a …