Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics
Foundations and Developments
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2006
Book
Hardback
784 pages
978-0-7656-1302-8 (ISBN)
Description
At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to resolve, this groundbreaking handbook of original works by leading behavioral economists offers the first comprehensive articulation of behavioral economics theory. Borrowing from the findings of psychologists, sociologists, political scientists, legal scholars, and biologists, among others, behavioral economists find that intelligent individuals often tend not to behave as effectively or efficiently in their economic decisions as long held by conventional wisdom. The manner in which individuals actually do behave critically depends on psychological, institutional, cultural, and even biological considerations. "Handbook of Contemporary Behavioral Economics" includes coverage of such critical areas 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 Behavioral Law and Macroeconomics. Each contribution includes an extensive bibliography.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables, figures, references, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 174 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7656-1302-8 (9780765613028)
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Person
Morris Altman received his Ph.D. in economics from McGill University. He is a former visiting scholar at Cornell, Duke, Hebrew, and Stanford universities, is professor and head of the Department of Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, and is an elected fellow of the World Innovation Foundation (WIF). He is president of the Society for Advancement of Behavioral Economics (SABE) and is editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics. Altman has published more than seventy scholarly papers in behavioral economics, economic history, institutional economics, and empirical macroeconomics. He has also published Human Agency and Material Welfare: Revisions in Microeconomics and Their Implications for Public Policy (1996) and Worker Satis[1]faction and Economic Performance (2001) and is currently completing two other books, one related to behavioral labor and the other to behavioral growth theory. He is also currently writing on issues related to economics and ethics, choice behavior, human and labor rights and growth, and the methodologies underlying behavioral economics.
Content
Introduction Part 1: Inside the Economic Agent 1. Inside Economic Man: Behavioral Economics and Consumer Behavior 2. Physiology and Behavioral Economics: The New Findings from Evolutionary Neuroscience 3. Intuition in Behavioral Economics 4. Introspective Economics: Broadening Psychology's Reach 5. Integrating Emotions into Economic Theory 6. On the Economics of Subselves: Toward a Metaeconomics Part 2: Context and Modeling 7. What a Difference an Assumption Makes: Effort Discretion, Economic Theory, and Public Policy 8. Group Selection and Behavioral Economics 9. Beliefs in Behavioral and Neoclassical Economics 10. Reclaiming Moral Sentiments: Behavioral Economics and the Ethical Foundations of Capitalism 11. Bounded Rationality: Two Interpretations from Psychology 12. Behavioral Versus Neoclassical Economics: Paradigm Shift or Generalization? 13. Organizational Capital and Personal Capital: The Role of Intangible Capital Formation in the Economy Part 3: Decision Making 14. How to Do As Well As You Can: The Psychology of Economic Behavior and Behavioral Ecology 15. Discounting, Self-Control, and Saving 16. Rational Choice Theory Versus Cultural Theory: On Taste and Social Capital 17. Deliberation Cost as a Foundation for Behavioral Economics 18. In-Depth Interviews as a Means of Understanding Economic Reasoning: Decision Making as Explained by Business Leaders and Business Economists Part 4: Experiments and Implications 19. Classroom Experiments in Behavioral Economics 20. A Behavioral Approach to Distribution and Bargaining 21. The Context, or Reference, Dependence of Economic Values: Further Evidence and Some Predictable Patterns 22. Experiments and Behavioral Economics Part 5: Labor-Related Issues 23. Behavioral Labor Economics 24. Hours of Labor Supply: A More Flexible Approach Part 6: Gender and Decision Making 25. Chicks, Hawks, and Patriarchal Institutions 26. Economic Decisions in the Private Household Part 7: Life and Death 27. A Prolegomenon to Behavioral Economic Studies of Suicide 28. Rational Health-Compromising Behavior and Economic Intervention Part 8: Taxation, Ethical Investment, and Tipping 29. Taxation and the Contribution of Behavioral Economics 30. Ethical Investing: Where Are We Now? 31. Tipping in Restaurants and Around the Globe: An Interdisciplinary Review Part 9: Development, Behavioral Law, and Money 32. Economic Development, Equality, Income Distribution, and Ethics 33. Insufficient Social Capital and Economic Underdevelopment Hamid Hosseini 34. Behavioral Law and Economics: An Introduction 35. Elements of Behavioral Monetary Economics 36. Behavioral Finance