Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral EconomicsMorris Altman M.E. Sharpe Offering the comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory, this book includes coverage of critical areas such as the Economic Agent, Context and Modeling, Decision Making, Experiments and Implications, Labor Issues, Household and Family Issues, Life and Death, Taxation, Ethical Investment and Tipping, and more. |
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... behavior can be both rational and intelligent but not neoclassical . Nonmaximizing neoclassical behavior need not be irrational ; it might simply be inefficient . • What are the implications for economic theory if variables XV INTRODUCTION.
... behavior can be both rational and intelligent but not neoclassical . Nonmaximizing neoclassical behavior need not be irrational ; it might simply be inefficient . • What are the implications for economic theory if variables XV INTRODUCTION.
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... variables can be of critical importance . This can yield starkly differ- ent analytical predictions and causal analyses . • Behavioral economics suggests that firms do not maximize output given inputs , that effort is a variable input ...
... variables can be of critical importance . This can yield starkly differ- ent analytical predictions and causal analyses . • Behavioral economics suggests that firms do not maximize output given inputs , that effort is a variable input ...
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... variable weakens the analytical power of conventional economic theory . His analysis ties into George's analyses of introspection . Maital makes the case that to become a more effective public policy instrument , economics needs to ...
... variable weakens the analytical power of conventional economic theory . His analysis ties into George's analyses of introspection . Maital makes the case that to become a more effective public policy instrument , economics needs to ...
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... variables are conceptualized , measured , and incorporated into economic theory . Lunt examines the intersection between economics , psychology , and soci- ology through the lens of a critical comparison of Gary Becker's social ...
... variables are conceptualized , measured , and incorporated into economic theory . Lunt examines the intersection between economics , psychology , and soci- ology through the lens of a critical comparison of Gary Becker's social ...
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... variables overcoming some of the limitations of simple rational choice models of suicide . Gideon Yaniv examines the literature on health - compromising behavior , apart from suicide , with special emphasis on such behavior in the ...
... variables overcoming some of the limitations of simple rational choice models of suicide . Gideon Yaniv examines the literature on health - compromising behavior , apart from suicide , with special emphasis on such behavior in the ...
Contenido
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INTROSPECTIVE ECONOMICS | 66 |
INTEGRATING EMOTIONS INTO ECONOMIC THEORY | 78 |
ON THE ECONOMICS OF SUBSELVES Toward a Metaeconomics | 99 |
CONTEXT AND MODELING | 123 |
WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ASSUMPTION MAKES Effort Discretion Economic Theory and Public Policy | 125 |
THE CONTEXT OR REFERENCE DEPENDENCE OF ECONOMIC VALUES Further Evidence and Some Predictable Patterns | 423 |
EXPERIMENTS AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS | 441 |
LABORRELATED ISSUES | 455 |
BEHAVIORAL LABOR ECONOMICS | 457 |
HOURS OF LABOR SUPPLY A More Flexible Approach | 479 |
GENDER AND DECISION MAKING | 497 |
CHICKS HAWKS AND PATRIARCHAL INSTITUTIONS | 499 |
ECONOMIC DECISIONS IN THE PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD | 517 |
GROUP SELECTION AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS | 165 |
BELIEFS IN BEHAVIORAL AND NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS | 183 |
RECLAIMING MORAL SENTIMENTS Behavioral Economics and the Ethical Foundations of Capitalism | 202 |
BOUNDED RATIONALITY Two Interpretations from Psychology | 218 |
BEHAVIORAL VERSUS NEOCLASSICAL ECONOMICS Paradigm Shift or Generalization? | 237 |
ORGANIZATIONAL CAPITAL AND PERSONAL CAPITAL The Role of Intangible Capital Formation in the Economy | 257 |
DECISION MAKING | 275 |
HOW TO DO AS WELL AS YOU CAN The Psychology of Economic Behavior and Behavioral Ecology | 277 |
DISCOUNTING SELFCONTROL AND SAVING | 297 |
RATIONAL CHOICE THEORY VERSUS CULTURAL THEORY On Taste and Social Capital | 326 |
DELIBERATION COST AS A FOUNDATION FOR BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS | 340 |
INDEPTH INTERVIEWS AS A MEANS OF UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC REASONING Decision Making as Explained by Business Leaders an... | 356 |
EXPERIMENTS AND IMPLICATIONS | 377 |
CLASSROOM EXPERIMENTS IN BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS | 379 |
A BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO DISTRIBUTION AND BARGAINING | 405 |
LIFE AND DEATH | 541 |
A PROLEGOMENON TO BEHAVIORAL ECONOMIC STUDIES OF SUICIDE | 543 |
RATIONAL HEALTHCOMPROMISING BEHAVIOR AND ECONOMIC INTERVENTION | 560 |
TAXATION AND THE CONTRIBUTION OF BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS | 589 |
ETHICAL INVESTING Where Are We Now? | 602 |
TIPPING IN RESTAURANTS AND AROUND THE GLOBE An Interdisciplinary Review | 626 |
DEVELOPMENT BEHAVIORAL LAW AND MONEY | 645 |
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EQUALITY INCOME DISTRIBUTION AND ETHICS | 647 |
INSUFFICIENT SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ECONOMIC UNDERDEVELOPMENT | 659 |
BEHAVIORAL LAW AND ECONOMICS An Introduction | 671 |
ELEMENTS OF BEHAVIORAL MONETARY ECONOMICS | 689 |
BEHAVIORAL FINANCE | 706 |
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS | 729 |
INDEX | 739 |
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Página 82 - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
Página 108 - Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease our senses will never inform us of what he suffers. They never did, and never can, carry us beyond our own person, and it is by the imagination only that we can form any conception of what are his sensations.
Página 7 - How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.
Página 405 - It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our , dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages.
Página 8 - And hence it is, that to feel much for others, and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent, affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature; and can alone produce among mankind that harmony of sentiments and passions in which consists their whole grace and propriety.
Página 82 - By utility is meant that property in any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness, (all this in the present case comes to the same thing) or (what comes again to the same thing) to prevent the happening of mischief, pain, evil, or unhappiness to the party whose interest is considered...
Página 8 - In the race for wealth, and honours, and preferments, he may run as hard as he can, and strain every nerve and every muscle, in order to outstrip all his competitors.
Página 207 - ... been moulded by his every-day work, and the material resources which he thereby procures, more than by any other influence unless it be that of his religious ideals; and the two great forming agencies of the world's history have been the religious and the economic . . . Economics is a study of men as they live and move and think in the ordinary business of life.
Página 266 - Emotional intelligence" refers to the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships.
Página 219 - A panel of psychologists have interviewed and administered personality tests to 30 engineers and 70 lawyers, all successful in their respective fields. On the basis of this information, thumbnail descriptions of the 30 engineers and 70 lawyers have been written. You will find on your forms five descriptions, chosen at random from the 100 available descriptions. For each description, please indicate your probability that the person described is an engineer, on a scale from 0 to 100. The other half...