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Children’s Snacks, their Ads and Consumer Sovereignty

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  • Stefan Mann
  • Maurício Reinert
  • Grace Botelho Pain
  • Marcio Noveli

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The concept of sovereign consumer preferences is challenged from three sides: child consumers, unhealthy food and advertising. The two theoretical concepts of merit goods and libertarian paternalism are implemented in order to classify situations in which full consumer sovereignty does not apply. An empirical analysis of ads for children’s snacks reveals the libertarian paternalist perspective as helpful for understanding the demand for and justification of ‘soft’ governmental intervention in the case of the advertised snacks, whilst the ads for these snacks may well be demerit goods. The banning or heavy taxation of these ads is therefore advocated.

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  • Stefan Mann & Maurício Reinert & Grace Botelho Pain & Marcio Noveli, 2019. "Children’s Snacks, their Ads and Consumer Sovereignty," Forum for Social Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(3), pages 264-280, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:fosoec:v:48:y:2019:i:3:p:264-280
    DOI: 10.1080/07360932.2016.1196595
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