Stores for selling banned products

Paternalists aren’t going to like this idea: “let anything the government would have banned be sold only at special ‘would have banned’ stores, whose customers pass a test showing they understand that regulators disapprove. The reason we don’t allow such stores seems obvious: we expect people would shop there.” (Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias, Mar. 2)(via […]

Paternalists aren’t going to like this idea: “let anything the government would have banned be sold only at special ‘would have banned’ stores, whose customers pass a test showing they understand that regulators disapprove. The reason we don’t allow such stores seems obvious: we expect people would shop there.” (Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias, Mar. 2)(via Cowen at Rev. Marge).

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  • If only the “As Seen on TV” store was referring to the nightly-news scare stories!