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1 May 2018 Issues with choice architecture, environmental ethics, and globalization
Edward Sankowski
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Cass R. Sunstein's book The Ethics of Influence appears to have three ideological features notable for purposes of this essay. The book emphasizes choice architecture (and related notions such as nudges and defaults), which should be ethically scrutinized to guard against ethical abuses and to assist us in ethically desirable uses of scientific psychology and behavioral economics. (1) This particular book focuses more on scrutinizing nation-state government than on corporate activities. (2) This book focuses more on domestically directed governmental action than on externally directed governmental action. (3) This book focuses more on certain developed liberal democracies than on the more comprehensive global situation. Sunstein is especially interested in environmental issues, particularly energy policy, global warming, and climate change. This essay argues that Sunstein's conceptual scheme can be fruitfully expanded to progress toward a normative environmental ethics that can be integrated with the insights of global political economy.

Edward Sankowski "Issues with choice architecture, environmental ethics, and globalization," Politics and the Life Sciences 37(1), 130-134, (1 May 2018). https://doi.org/10.1017/pls.2018.7
Published: 1 May 2018
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