Handbook of behavioural economics and smart decision-making rational decision-making within the bounds of reason
This Handbook is a unique and original contribution of over thirty chapters on behavioural economics. It examines and addresses an important stream of research where the starting assumption is that decision-makers are, for the most part, relatively smart or rational. This particular approach is in c...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / by Vernon Smith
- 1. Introduction to smart decision-making / Morris Altman
- Part I Smart decision-makers, different types of rationality, and outcomes
- 2. Rational inefficiency : smart thinking, bounded rationality, and the scientific basis for economic failure and success / Morris Altman
- 3. Rational mistakes that make us smart / Nathan Berg
- 4. Rational choice as if the choosers were human / Peter J. Boettke and Rosolino A. Candela
- 5. Smart predictions from wrong data : the case of ecological correlations / Florian Kutzner and Tobias Vogel
- 6. Heuristics : fast, frugal, and smart / Shabnam Mousavi, Björn meder, Hansjörg Neth and Reza Kheirandish
- 7. The beauty of simplicity? (simple) heuristics and the opportunities yet to be realized / Andreas Ortmann and Leonidas Spiliopoulos
- 8. Smart persons and human development : the missing ingredient in behavioral economics / John F. Tomer
- Part II Aspects of smart decision-making
- how far are shirking, slackening, favoritism, spoiling of children, and pornography from obsessive-compulsive behavior? / Elias L. Khalil
- 29. The role of identity, personal and social capital in community crime prevention / Ambrose Leung and Brandon Harrison
- 30. Norms, culture, and cognition / Shinji Teraji
- Part VIII Morals and ethics
- 31. Rational choice in public and private spheres / Herbert Gintis
- 32. Ethics and simple games / Mark Pingle
- Index
- behaviour and bubbles / Owen Powell and Natalia Shestakova
- 22. To consume or to save : are we maximising or what? / Tobias F. Rötheli
- Part VI Dimensions of health
- 23. Time orientation effects on health behaviour / Jannette Van Beek, Michel J.J. Handgraaf and Gerrit Antonides
- 24. Behavioral aspects of obesity / Ddelia Rosin
- 25. Time inconsistent preferences in intertemporal choices for physical activity & weight loss : evidence from canadian health surveys / Nazmi Sari
- 26. Suicide amongst smart people / Bijou Yang and David Lester
- Part VII Sociological dimensions of smart decision-making
- 27. Seeing and knowing others : the impact of social ties on economic interactions / Astrid Hopfensitz
- insights and inspirations from the US Marine Corps / Mie Augier
- 10. Feminist economics for smart behavioural economics / Siobhan Austen
- 11. How regret moves individual and collective choices towards rationality / Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde
- 12. Is it rational to be in love? / Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster
- 13. Behavioural economic anthropology / Giuseppe Danese and Luigi Mittone
- Part III Development and governance
- 14. Do changes in farmers' seed traits align with climate change? a case study of maize in Chiapas, México / C. Leigh Anderson, Andrew Cronholm and Pierre Biscaye
- 15. Rationality, globalization, and x-efficiency among financial institutions / Roger Frantz
- 16. The evolution of governance structures in a polycentric system / Edward Mcphail and Vlad Tarko
- Part IV Tax behaviour
- 17. Taxation and nudging / Simon James
- 18. Income tax compliance / Erich Kirchler, Barbara Hartl and Katharina Gangl