UM: Economy

On The Huffington Post, UM professor Peter Ubel writes a column that disputes a Wall Street Journal editorial on the virtues of the free market: “As a physician, I have spent my clinical time caring for patients -smokers, overeaters, under-exercisers – who have been harmed by many of the products that these kind of libertarians would want us to free from regulation. As a behavioral scientist, I have studied how easy it can be to unconsciously influence people’s behavior. As the father of 8 and 10 year-old boys, I have yearned for a government that is willing to step in, when necessary, to protect my kids from the harmfulness of our excessive consumerism.” [Source]