Introduction: a symposium on the behavioural limits of the state.

While sharing many of their liberal sentiments, and while opposed to behaviourally-informed paternalistic state intervention, I argue in my article for a more Millian approach to behavioural public policy (Oliver, [3]). Mario Rizzo, Nick Chater, Cass Sunstein, Peter Boettke & Christopher Coyne and I presented papers under this general theme at those symposia, and their (and my) articles comprise this special section of the journal. Keywords: Behavioural; state; regulation; manipulation EN Behavioural state regulation manipulation 1928 1933 6 12/27/22 20221201 NES 221201 Introduction Behavioural public policy is a relatively new, but now substantive, subfield of public policy. [Extracted from the article]