Behavioral Economics and Its Applications / / ed. by Hannu Vartiainen, Peter Diamond.

In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 50 line illus.
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Foreword --
List of Contributors --
Chapter one. Introduction --
Chapter two. Behavioral Public Economics:Welfare and Policy Analysis with Nonstandard Decision-Makers --
Chapter three. Psychology and Development Economics --
Chapter four. Behavioral Law and Economics --
Chapter five. Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity --
Chapter six. Behavioral Economics and Health Economics --
Chapter seven. Behavioral Economics of Organizations --
Chapter eight. Wrap-Up Panel --
Index
Summary:In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of applied economics-finance. Peter Diamond and Hannu Vartiainen's Behavioral Economics and Its Applications argues that behavioral economics can have a similar impact in other fields of economics. In this volume, some of the world's leading thinkers in behavioral economics and general economic theory make the case for a much greater use of behavioral ideas in six fields where these ideas have already proved useful but have not yet been fully incorporated--public economics, development, law and economics, health, wage determination, and organizational economics. The result is an attempt to set the agenda of an important development in economics--an agenda that will interest policymakers, sociologists, and psychologists as well as economists. Contributors include Ian Ayres, B. Douglas Bernheim, Truman F. Bewley, Colin F. Camerer, Anne Case, Michael D. Cohen, Peter Diamond, Christoph Engel, Richard G. Frank, Jacob Glazer, Seppo Honkapohja, Christine Jolls, Botond Koszegi, Ulrike Malmendier, Sendhil Mullainathan, Antonio Rangel, Emmanuel Saez, Eldar Shafir, Sir Nicholas Stern, Jean Tirole, Hannu Vartiainen, and Timothy D. Wilson.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781400829149
9783110442502
DOI:10.1515/9781400829149?locatt=mode:legacy
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Hannu Vartiainen, Peter Diamond.